Article
Renal allograft rejection in CD4+ T cell-reconstituted athymic nude rats. The origin of CD4+ and CD8+ graft-infiltrating cells.
Transplantation - 1 Dec 1990
Gracie J A, Sarawar S R, Bolton E M, Bradley J A, Tanaka T, Bell E B
Abstract excerpt
PVG-rnu/rnu nude rats reject a fully allogeneic DA renal allograft after the adoptive transfer of naive CD4+ T cells alone, but rejection is accompanied by the accumulation of many CD8+ leukocytes within the graft. In order to clearly establish the provenance of these CD8+ cells infiltrating rejecting kidney allografts, nude recipients (PVG-RT7a) were injected with CD4+ T cells from the PVG-RT7b congenic strain...
Topics
- Animals
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes
- Graft Rejection
- Kidney Transplantation
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Strains
- Rats, Nude
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
- T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory
- Transplantation, Homologous
