Article
Monocyte-derived dendritic cell precursors facilitate tolerance to heart allografts after total lymphoid irradiation.
Transplantation - 27 Nov 1998
Hayamizu K, Huie P, Sibley R K, Strober S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that posttransplant total lymphoid irradiation, anti-thymocyte globulin, and an intravenous donor blood cell infusion induce tolerance to ACI heart allografts in Lewis rat hosts. METHODS: In the current study, fresh ACI monocytes and dendritic cell precurso...
Topics
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Cytokines
- Dendritic Cells
- Graft Survival
- Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor
- Heart Transplantation
- Immune Tolerance
- Interferon-gamma
- Interleukin-10
- Interleukin-2
- Interleukin-4
- Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed
- Lymphoid Tissue
- Male
- Phenotype
- RNA, Messenger
- Rats