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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-10-19
pubmed:abstractText
Rare kidney allograft recipients enjoy unaltered graft function years after interruption of their immunosuppressive treatment. To assess the extent to which this state of 'operational tolerance' (TOL) is specific to the graft and not the result of a global immunodeficiency, we analyzed the response of such patients following influenza vaccination. Hemagglutination inhibition titers and frequency of IFNgamma-secreting T cells were measured before 1 and 3 months after vaccination. The proportion of healthy volunteers (HV) responding to vaccine was significantly higher than that of immunosuppressed (IS) patients. Three 'TOL' patients presented a humoral response similar to that of HV, whereas the two others had a poor response, like the IS recipients. Although the small number of patients does not allow for definitive conclusions to be made, these data suggest that the status of tolerance may be heterogeneous, with some patients with a global immunodeficiency and others with an adapted response to vaccination.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1600-6135
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2796-801
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Humoral and cellular responses to influenza vaccination in human recipients naturally tolerant to a kidney allograft.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (I.N.S.E.R.M.), Unité 643: Immunointervention dans les Allo et xenotransplantations CHU-HOTEL DIEU, 30 Bd Jean Monnet, 44035 Nantes Cedex 01, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study