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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
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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 lymphocytes obtained in each culture. Donor-specific cytotoxicity was demonstrated in three patients with known HLA status of...
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