MECHANISM OF TOLERANCE FOLLOWING CLASS I-DISPARATE RENAL ALLOGRAFTS IN MINIATURE SWINE

Autor: David H. Sachs, Philip C. Guzzetta, Takao Suzuki, Kaoru Sakamoto, Eric O. Kortz, Joan K. Lunney, Caroline H. Chester
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: Transplantation. 49:1142-1149
ISSN: 0041-1337
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199006000-00023
Popis: Previous studies utilizing a recombinant MHC haplo-type in our partially inbred miniature swine herd have demonstrated that some recipients matched only for SLA class II show long-term acceptance of renal allografts without exogenous immunosuppression. Such animals have been shown to develop systemic tolerance as evidenced by prolonged rejection times of subsequent donor-specific, but not third-party, skin grafts. In the present studies in vitro cellular responses of long-term tolerant animals and of 7 animals studied sequentially are presented. Long-term tolerant animals demonstrated responses consistent with the absence of the class I reactive helper populations normally present in naive controls. Animals studied sequentially segregated into two groups based on cellular reactivity and survival. All animals showed complete loss of antidonor class I cell-mediated lymphocytolytic (CML) reactivity by postoperative day 10. However, animals surviving less than 20 days maintained CML reactivity to donor class I plus third-party class II in the posttransplant period, while animals surviving greater than 40 days lost such reactivity. Addition of exogenous interleukin 2 could not reverse this loss. These studies suggest that tolerance induction to a renal allograft across a class I only difference involves effects on both helper and killer class I reactive cell populations.
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