Article
Donor-specific cellular immune response against human cardiac valve allografts.
The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery - 1 Aug 1996
Hoekstra F, Knoop C, Vaessen L, Wassenaar C, Jutte N, Bos E, Bogers A, Weimar W
Abstract excerpt
We studied the presence of donor-specific T lymphocytes in explanted human cardiac valve allografts in vivo. From five of seven explants we propagated lymphocyte cultures in an interleukin-2 conditioned medium. Phenotyping revealed the presence of T-cell receptors in more than 95% of the lymphocy...
Topics
- Adult
- Aortic Valve
- Cells, Cultured
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Culture Media
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
- Humans
- Immunity, Cellular
- Infant
- Interleukin-2
- Killer Cells, Lymphokine-Activated
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Pulmonary Valve
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
