Donor-strain-derived immature dendritic cell pre-treatment induced hyporesponsiveness against allogeneic antigens
Donor-strain-derived immature dendritic cell pre-treatment induced hyporesponsiveness against allogeneic antigens
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2567.2009.03158.x
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发表时间:
2010-04-01
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影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
Kim, Yon Su
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作者:
Kang, Hee Gyung;Lee, Jung Eun;Kim, Yon Su
P>The maturation of antigen-presenting dendritic cells (DCs) serves as an important determinant for the regulation of immunity, and overall immune response. We hypothesized that a reduced immune response to donor alloantigens and improved allograft survival could be induced by pre-treating recipients with bone-marrow-derived donor-strain fixed immature DCs (FIDCs). Donor-strain-derived mature and immature DCs were fixed before grafting to ensure that they possessed a stable immunogenic phenotype. The fixed mature DCs effectively induced allogeneic T-cell proliferation in recipients, whereas FIDCs were unable to elicit an allogeneic T-cell response. T cells that had previously been exposed to FIDCs maintained naive phenotypes and were unable to extensively divide after injection into lethally irradiated donor-strain mice. The pre-treatment of recipients with donor-strain FIDCs markedly prolonged the survival of islet as well as skin allografts. However, T-cell hyporesponsiveness induced by FIDC injection was abrogated by the depletion of CD4+ CD25+ T cells. Consequently, FIDC-induced T-cell hyporesponsiveness could reflect anergy rather than specific deletion. Our findings suggest that FIDCs of donor strain could be used to induce long-term graft survival.