Article
Inclusion of peripancreatic lymph node cells prevents recurrent autoimmune destruction of islet transplants: evidence of donor chimerism.
Surgery - 1 Aug 1995
Bartlett S T, Chin T, Dirden B, Quereshi A, Hadley G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recurrent autoimmune beta-cell destruction may contribute to the poor results of clinical islet transplantation. Pancreas transplants from diabetes-resistant BB rats (BB-DR) are uniformly successful in autoimmune diabetic BB rats (BB-Ac), but isolated islets are destroyed, despite immunosuppression. In this study we tested the hypothesis that whole pancreas transplants abrogate autoimmunity by passive...
Topics
- Animals
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Cell Transplantation
- Chimera
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Islets of Langerhans Transplantation
- Lymph Nodes
- Pancreas
- Pancreas Transplantation
