HUMAN PERIPHERAL BLOOD LYMPHOCYTE RECONSTITUTED SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENT (hu‐PBL‐SCID) MICE: A Model for Human Islet Allograft Rejection
HUMAN PERIPHERAL BLOOD LYMPHOCYTE RECONSTITUTED SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENT (hu‐PBL‐SCID) MICE: A Model for Human Islet Allograft Rejection
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人外周血淋巴细胞重建严重联合免疫缺陷 (hu-PBL-SCID) 小鼠:人胰岛同种异体移植排斥模型
DOI:
10.1097/00007890-199406150-00004
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发表时间:
1994
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影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
D. Scharp
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作者:
R. Shiroki;N. Poindexter;E. Woodle;M. Hussain;T. Mohanakumar;D. Scharp
Severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice have become a promising tool for the development of models of human immunologic process. We report the development of a reproducible technique for engrafting SCID mice with human PBL (hu-PBL-SCID). Our results show that a booster injection of anti-CD3 antibody stimulated human lymphocytes given 2 days after the initial injection of lymphocytes will improve the efficiency of chimera establishment to 86.7% (13 out of 15). There was also good correlation among detection of human Ig, human CD3+ cells, and human DNA by polymerase chain reaction amplification in the circulation of hu-PBL-SCID mice. Questions remain concerning the immune function of the human lymphoid cells in the SCID mouse. In this study, we analyzed the ability of human T cells in SCID mice to reject human islet allografts transplanted under the kidney capsule. Human islet allograft function assessed by human C-peptide levels demonstrated failure of islet allografts within 21 days after transplantation in hu-PBL-SCID. In contrast, human islets grafted in unreconstituted SCID mice continued to function for greater than 60 days. Recovered human T cells from rejected islets of hu-PBL-SCID mice displayed specific cytolytic activity against HLA class I-matched islets, while the recovered cells from spleen of hu-PBL-SCID mice showed minimal specific cytotoxicity against islets. These results suggest that graft-infiltrating lymphocytes were activated by the engrafted islets within the hu-PBL-SCID, causing the eventual rejection of the human islet allograft. Thus, engraftment of the anti-CD3 antibody-primed human PBL results in a mouse-human chimera with a functionally competent human immune system that is capable of rejecting a human islet allograft.