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ArticleTransplantation2008

The effects of tolerance on allograft damage caused by the innate immune system.

Ruediger Hoerbelt, Christopher L Benjamin, Tsuyoshi Shoji, Stuart L Houser, Ashok Muniappan, Rebecca S Hasse, Levi G Ledgerwood, James S Allan, David H Sachs, Joren C Madsen

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Article in Transplantation, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Hurdles to Cardioprotection in the Critically Ill.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
    Review
  2. Donor brain death inhibits tolerance induction in miniature swine recipients of fully MHC-disparate pulmonary allografts.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ruediger HoerbeltTransplantation Biology Research Center, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Christopher L Benjamin
Tsuyoshi Shoji
Stuart L Houser
Ashok Muniappan
Rebecca S Hasse
Levi G Ledgerwood
James S Allan
David H Sachs
Joren C Madsen
Massachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY IN MINIATURE SWINER01HL054211 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ROSENGARD, BRUCE R · 1996 to 2008
$3.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL054211NHLBI NIH HHS R01HL54211
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIt is not known whether tolerance can be induced in a strong proinflammatory milieu or whether the induction of tolerance can prevent interferon (IFN)-gamma-associated graft injury. To address these questions, we studied the effects of rIFN-gamma infusion on porcine cardiac allograft survival.

methodsRecombinant interferon (rIFN)-gamma was continuously infused into the left anterior descending artery of hearts transplanted into major histocompatibility complex-inbred miniature swine treated with a 12-day course of cyclosporine A. Group 1 recipients received a nearly syngeneic heart, group 2 recipients received a class I disparate heart, and group 3 recipients were cotransplanted with a class I-disparate heart and kidney, a procedure demonstrated to induce tolerance to both grafts. A fourth group of animals were not transplanted but received intracoronary rIFN-gamma infusion into the native heart.

resultsrIFN-gamma perfusion not only accelerated the acute rejection of class I-disparate hearts (mean survival time, 19+/-7.21 vs. 38+/-8.19; P=0.025) but caused near-syngeneic heart transplants, which otherwise survived indefinitely, to reject within 35 days. In contrast, rIFN-gamma perfusion had no demonstrable effects on hearts grafts in tolerant recipients or on autologous hearts.

conclusionsThese results suggest that tolerance induction can occur in the presence of IFN-gamma-mediated inflammation, and that tolerance induction can prevent the tissue injury caused by the overproduction of IFN-gamma. This suggests that the beneficial effects of tolerance may include protection from nonspecific inflammatory responses, such as those produced by ischemia-reperfusion injury and brain death.

Indexed as

Acute DiseaseAnimalsCoronary VesselsEndotheliumGraft RejectionHeart TransplantationHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIImmune ToleranceImmunity, InnateInfusions, Intra-ArterialInterferon-gammaRecombinant ProteinsSwineSwine, MiniatureTransplantation, HomologousHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIInterferon-gammaRecombinant Proteins

Identifiers

PMID18301326
PMCPMC2846698
OpenAlexW2058023070

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