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Allograft rejection and immune responses against allogeneic antigens in neonatally thymectomized mice.
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Transplantation [Transplantation] 1986 Feb; Vol. 41 (2), pp. 209-13. - Publication Year :
- 1986
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Abstract
- Skin allograft survival and immune responses against allogeneic antigens homologous to skin grafts were observed in BALB/c Cr Slc (BALB) mice (H-2d) thymectomized at 1 day after birth and grafted with skin from major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-incompatible, fully allogeneic C3H/HeN (C3H) (H-2k) or MHC-compatible allogeneic DBA/2 Cr Slc (DBA) mice (H-2d), at 14 weeks of age. In neonatally thymectomized (NTx) BALB mice, survival of C3H skin grafts was not prolonged at all, but survival of DBA skin grafts was prolonged significantly, although the survival periods of DBA skin grafts were very different among individual recipients. In NTx recipients grafted with C3H skin, delayed foot-pad reaction (DFR) was not reduced, but cytotoxic lymphocyte (CTL) activity and cytotoxic antibody (CTAb) production were appreciably depressed. CTL and CTAb were reduced profoundly and consistently in all NTx mice grafted with DBA skin, while DFR was reduced to various degrees in each. The degrees of depression of DFR in these NTx mice correlated well with the prolongation of DBA skin survival, although the sample number was small. The rejection of skin allografts appears to be attributable largely to a T cell subset, the function of which can be expressed as DFR. Thymus dependency in the ontogenic development is low as compared with other T cell subsets.
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- Animals
Antilymphocyte Serum analysis
Female
Graft Survival
Immunity, Cellular
Mice
Mice, Inbred BALB C
Mice, Inbred C3H
Mice, Inbred DBA
Skin Transplantation
Species Specificity
T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic immunology
Time Factors
Animals, Newborn immunology
Graft Rejection
Hypersensitivity, Delayed immunology
Isoantigens immunology
Thymectomy
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0041-1337
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Transplantation
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 3511583
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007890-198602000-00015