The case for local immunosuppression.
The case for local immunosuppression.
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局部免疫抑制的情况。
DOI:
10.1097/00007890-199207000-00001
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发表时间:
1992
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影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
S. Gruber
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作者:
S. Gruber
Organ transplantation has assumed a major role in the treatment of end-stage renal, hepatic, and cardiopulmonary disease, with continued improvements in graft and patient survival. However, systemically administered immunosuppressive agents currently prevent transplant rejection at the cost of renal, hepatic, bone marrow, and other organ dysfunction. Their use in currently accepted dosage schedules promotes the development of infection, diabetes, and hypertension in allograft recipients, and is associated with an increased risk of malignancy. Three major approaches exist toward reducing the drugspecific and general adverse consequences of systemic immunosuppression in allograft recipients, and thereby improving the quality and duration of life following transplantation:(1) treatment of the donor organ and/or transplant patient to achieve tolerance, in which the host immune system is specifically unresponsive to the graft but otherwise completely intact, so that further antirejection therapy is unnecessary;(2) development of new, nontoxic immunosuppressants with increasingly greater specificity, so that eventually only the activity of lymphocytes that recognize graft antigens will be inhibited and the rest of the host immune system will be spared; and (3) utilization of local drug administration systems to establish a more selective presence of currently available nonspecific immunosuppressive agents in the transplanted organ through the spatial and temporal control of drug delivery, with a concomitant reduction in systemic drug exposure. Although tolerance can be produced in a variety of animal models and the investigation of tolerance mechanisms continues at a brisk pace (1, 2), feasible protocols with acceptable risk/benefit ratios for widespread clinical application remain elusive (3). The introduction of pan-T cell monoclonal antibody (OKT3) within the last decade has added a new dimension to transplant immunosuppression, but systemic use of this agent has been associated with an increased incidence and severity of infections (4–7) and lymphomas (8, 9). Finally, experimental and clinical studies utilizing the more specific anti-CD4 (10), anti-IL-2 receptor (11, 12), and antiintercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1)*(13) monoclonal antibodies are just begin-