Clinical and basic scientific implications of cell migration and microchimerism after organ transplantation.
Clinical and basic scientific implications of cell migration and microchimerism after organ transplantation.
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器官移植后细胞迁移和微嵌合的临床和基础科学意义。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1525-1594.1997.tb00465.x
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Starzl,TE
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作者:
Starzl,TE
Whole organ transplantation practices have brought this form of surgical treatment to a high level of efficiency and success, contrary to the pessimistic predictions at the outset of most immunologists. Historically, an allograft was envisioned as defenseless and vulnerable to immunologic attack in proportion to its histocompatibility disparity with that of the recipient. This dogma defined transplantation in terms of a unidirectional immune reaction both for bone marrow and organs (a one-way paradigm)(Fig. 1).The one-way paradigm was unchallenged for more than 3 decades until in 1992, we discovered the presence of ubiquitous low level donor leukocyte chimerism in our human organ recipients as long as 30 years posttransplantation (1, 2). We postulated from these findings (and subsequently obtained much confirmatory evidence [3–5]) that the interaction of 2 coexisting donor and recipient leukocyte populations, each to the other, was the generic mechanism of successful tolerance after bone marrow transplantation as well as the acceptance of organ allografts (Fig. 2).