Synergistic effect of total-lymphoid irradiation with extracted donor alloantigen in inducing transplantation unresponsiveness
The synergistic effect of total lymphoid irradiation with KCl-extracted donor type antigen (H-Ag) was examined in the rat cardiac graft model. TLI therapy alone of 10, 16, and 20 Gy achieved by a 2 Gy daily treatment of WFu recipients produced modest prolongation of BUF heart survival to median survival times (MST) of 11, 26, and 30 days, respectively, in comparison with normal control (MST = 6). The TLI immunosuppressive effect was significantly potentiated with donor H-Ag when combined with 16 (greater than 100 days) but not with 10 or 20 Gy TLI therapy. This effect was specific: 16 Gy TLI treated recipients of BUF hearts rejected their grafts in a MST of 27 days when treated with third-party BN H-Ag. The state of unresponsiveness was transferable to 6 Gy total-body-irradiated WFu recipients of BUF hearts with 60 x 10(6) purified T cells isolated from TLI/H-Ag-treated rats (greater than 100) but not from normal controls (MST = 6). In vitro analysis of nontransplanted WFu rats 1-4 weeks after completion of 16 Gy TLI therapy alone demonstrated a nonspecifically reduced MLR proliferative response as well as the presence of potent nonspecific suppressor cells (NSC). By 3 or even 6 months post-TLI, W3/25- NSC displayed persistent suppressive activity and inhibited normal proliferative response to alloantigens. Limiting dilution assay revealed that the frequency of T cytotoxic cells (fTc) was severely decreased to 1:63111 at one day and to 1:16488 at one week postirradiation in comparison with normal control (1:2551). At 3 and 6 months the fTc of 1:2301 and 1:2040, respectively, approximated normal levels. These combined in vivo and in vitro results demonstrate that 16 Gy TLI therapy induces an unresponsiveness mediated by NSC and that the administration of donor type H-Ag facilitates the generation of potent regulatory T cells capable of inducing prolonged heart allograft survival.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Texas Medical School, Houston (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6403194
- Journal Information:
- Transplantation; (United States), Vol. 47:1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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