Article
Evidence that human cardiac allograft acceptance is associated with a decrease in donor-reactive helper T lymphocytes.
Transplantation - 15 Mar 1995
DeBruyne L A, Renlund D G, Bishop D K
Abstract excerpt
We have reported that acute cardiac allograft rejection is associated with increased numbers of donor-reactive helper T lymphocytes (HTL) in the peripheral blood of patients. Further, increased frequencies of circulating donor-reactive HTL may predict allograft rejection episodes diagnosed by end...
Topics
- Graft Rejection
- HLA Antigens
- Heart Transplantation
- Humans
- Lymphocyte Count
- Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed
- Phenotype
- Spleen
- T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer
- Tissue Donors
- Transplantation, Homologous
