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ArticleClinical & developmental immunology2013

Heart allograft tolerance induced and maintained by vascularized hind-limb transplant in rats.

Quan Liu, Yong Wang, Atsunori Nakao, Wensheng Zhang, Vijay Gorantla, Xin Xiao Zheng

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Article in Clinical & developmental immunology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Tolerogenic Therapies in Cardiac Transplantation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Quan LiuThomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
Yong Wang
Atsunori Nakao
Wensheng Zhang
Vijay Gorantla
Xin Xiao Zheng
University of Pittsburgh · USHarbin Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organ/tissue transplantation has become an effective therapy for end-stage diseases. However, immunosuppression after transplantation may cause severe side effects. Donor-specific transplant tolerance was proposed to solve this problem. In this study, we report a novel method for inducing and maintaining heart allograft tolerance rats. First, we induced indefinite vascularized hind-limb allograft survival with a short-term antilymphocyte serum + Cyclosporine A treatment. Peripheral blood chimerism disappeared 6-7 weeks after immunosuppression was withdrawn. Then the recipients accepted secondary donor-strain skin and heart transplantation 200 days following vascularized hind-limb transplantation without any immunosuppression, but rejected third party skin allografts, a status of donor-specific tolerance. The ELISPOT results suggested a mechanism of clone deletion. These findings open new perspectives for the role of vascularized hind-limb transplant in the induction and maintenance of organ transplantation tolerance.

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AnimalsAntilymphocyte SerumCyclosporineGraft SurvivalHeart TransplantationHindlimbImmunosuppression TherapyIsoantigensMaleNeovascularization, PhysiologicRatsRats, Inbred LewSkin TransplantationTime FactorsAntilymphocyte SerumCyclosporineIsoantigens

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PMID23573112
PMCPMC3610394
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