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Role of the thymus in transplantation tolerance in miniature swine: V. Deficiency of the graft-to-thymus pathway of tolerance induction in recipients of cardiac transplants.

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BACKGROUND:We have previously shown that both thymic immigrants (graft to thymus pathway) and thymic emigrants (thymus to graft pathway) are involved in tolerance to renal allografts in miniature swine treated with a short course of calcineurin inhibitors. This study investigates the role of these pathways in cardiac transplant survival in recipients treated with a short course of tacrolimus. METHODS:Eleven animals received two-haplotype fully MHC-mismatched cardiac grafts with a 12-day course of tacrolimus. Recipients were thymectomized on day -21 (n=5) or day 0 (n=3), or were left euthymic (n=3). Two of the day -21 thymectomized animals received a day 0 host-MHC matched thymocyte infusion. RESULTS:Euthymic recipients of cardiac grafts treated with an immunosuppressive regimen identical to that previously shown to induce tolerance in euthymic recipients of renal allografts all rejected their grafts. Although no animal became tolerant, animals that were euthymic or thymectomized on day 0, as well as recipients of day 0 host-type thymocyte infusions following thymectomy on day -21, developed donor-specific hyporesponsiveness and maintained their cardiac grafts for markedly prolonged periods. In contrast, all animals thymectomized on day -21 that did not receive thymocyte infusions developed strong antidonor CTL responses and rejected their grafts by day 35. CONCLUSIONS:The graft-to-thymus pathway that plays an important role in tolerance induction to renal allografts appears to be relatively deficient in recipients of cardiac grafts. Strategies to increase donor antigen migration to the host thymus might therefore assist in tolerance induction to cardiac allografts.

journal_name

Transplantation

journal_title

Transplantation

authors

Yamamoto S,Teranishi K,Kamano C,Samelson-Jones E,Arakawa H,Nobori S,Okumi M,Houser S,Shimizu A,Sachs DH,Yamada K

doi

10.1097/01.tp.0000198735.17555.f1

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-02-27 00:00:00

pages

607-13

issue

eissn

0041-1337

issn

1534-6080

pii

00007890-200602270-00020

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Role of the thymus in transplantation tolerance in miniature swine: V. Deficiency of the graft-to-thymus pathway of tolerance induction in recipients of cardiac transplants.