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Donor dendritic cells (DCs) within allografts initiate the induction of an allospecific T cell response, while an abortive alloantigen presentation by DCs may induce allospecific unresponsiveness. We thus investigated the tolerogenic effect of donor DCs that were made incompetent in alloantigen presentation by treatment of CTLA4Ig. When we treated rats with donor DCs (2 × 106/rat i.v.) on the preoperative day, nine rejected allografts in an accelerated manner (5.0 ± 2.2 vs. 8.2 ± 1.6 days in the control group). Preoperative inoculation of DCs pulsed with CTLA4Ig, a procedure which suppresses an allogeneic mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR), also provoked an accelerated rejection (5.6 ± 1.7 days). When DCs and CTLA4Ig (500 μg/rat i.p. on days −9, −7 and −5) were concomitantly inoculated, allograft survival was significantly prolonged (>38.7 ± 40.0 days); a preoperative CTLA4Ig inoculation alone failed to do so (7.5 ± 1.2 days). Long-term graft survivors tolerated skin grafts from the donor but not from those from a third party. These results indicate that abortive alloantigen presentation by donor DCs, upon which an accessory signal pathway is suppressed by CTLA4Ig, leads to prolonged graft survival and donor-specific tolerance.
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Received: 12 June 1999 / Accepted: 1 October 1999
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Harada, H., Ishikura, H., Nakagawa, I. et al. Abortive alloantigen presentation by donor dendritic cells leads to donor-specific tolerance: a study with a preoperative CTLA4Ig inoculation. Urological Research 28, 69–74 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002400050013
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002400050013