New Insights into Prevention of Donor-specific Corneal Graft Rejection
New Insights into Prevention of Donor-specific Corneal Graft Rejection
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预防供体特异性角膜移植排斥的新见解
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发表时间:
2000
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通讯作者:
J. Streilein
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作者:
J. Yamada;J. Streilein
Allogeneic corneal grafts placed in “high-risk” human eyes have a very poor prognosis, and even intensive systemic immunosuppressive therapy is often of no avail. Because corneal transplants are the most common type of clinical grafting performed in humans and because failure of corneal grafts in “highrisk” eyes is a prominent cause of blindness, understanding the immunologic bases of graft rejection and of developing donorspecific suppression are worthy goals for research. The development of rodent models to experimentally explore orthotopic cornea transplants engendered significant new knowledge during the 1990s. Due to the factors responsible for ocular immune privilege, it has been found that minor histocompatibility antigens, rather than antigens encoded within the major histocompatibility complex, are the most important initiators of alloimmunity after orthotopic corneal transplants. Minor histocompatibility antigens are presented to the recipient immune system by antigen-presenting cells that migrate into the graft from the limbus. Peptides derived from processing of minor histocompatibility antigens are loaded onto “self” MHC molecules and presented to recipient T cells by the so-called indirect pathway of allorecognition. It is now established that T lymphocytes (and cell-mediated immunity) rather than antibodies (and humoral immunity) are chiefly responsible for the destructive alloimmunity that follows orthotopic corneal grafting in rodents. Moreover, CD4 T cells of the T helper type 1 phenotype (rather than CD8 cytotoxic T cells) that effect delayedtype hypersensitivity are the more important proximate mediators of corneal graft rejection. Armed with this information, our laboratory has developed novel strategies to prevent rejection of orthotopic corneal transplants. Our hope is that we will discover donor-specific immunosuppressive therapy that will be useful in human beings.
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影响因子:
6.2
作者:
Sano,Y;Streilein,JW;Ksander,BR
通讯作者:
Ksander,BR
影响因子:
4.4
作者:
Wang,HM;Kaplan,HJ;Chan,WC;Johnson,M
通讯作者:
Johnson,M
影响因子:
4.2
作者:
Treseler,PA;Foulks,GN;Sanfilippo,F
通讯作者:
Sanfilippo,F
DOI:
10.1001/archopht.116.10.1351
发表时间:
1998
期刊:
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
影响因子:
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作者:
Yamada,J;Dana,MR;Zhu,SN;Alard,P;Streilein,JW
通讯作者:
Streilein,JW
影响因子:
13.7
作者:
Thomas E. Gillette;John W. Chandler;Jack V. Greiner
通讯作者:
Thomas E. Gillette;John W. Chandler;Jack V. Greiner