Bone-marrow transplantation: man and mouse
Bone-marrow transplantation: man and mouse
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骨髓移植:人和小鼠
DOI:
10.1038/280720a0
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发表时间:
1979
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
M. Robertson
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作者:
M. Robertson
surviving patients out of thirteen given transplants for aplastic anaemia at the Hammersmith Hospital eventually recovered full autologous bone-marrow function(EC Gordon-Smith, Hammersmith Hospital) which suggests that the function of at least some successful transplants in such patients may be to tide them over until they spontaneously recover, which some of them do on steroids alone. Exactly how high the proportion of spontaneous recoveries may be is not clear: of a series of 168 at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, only four spontaneously recovered. Whether in these cases the anaemia is caused by a toxic substance which clears only very slowly, or whether it is a temporary autoimmine problem is not known. In SCID, on the other hand, it is quite common for successfully transplanted bone marrow to replace everything but B cells (R. O'Reilley, Sloan-Kettering, New York), which suggests a regulatory defect induced by the host. It is unclear at what stage bone-marrow differentiation fails in SCID (R. Parkman, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston) and this is hardly surprising since in spite of recent advances in mouse immunology, the ontogeny ofthe immune system is not understood. A central problem is of course tissue matching, for which there is no entirely satisfactory test. A mismatch may lead either to the rejection of the graft by the host, where the host is immunocompetent and complete suppression is not achieved, or to graft-versus-host disease. B. Torok-Storb (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle) reported that the inhibition of donor cell proliferation by the patient's cells in allogeneic cultures could help to predict graft failure, while D. Schendel (Institute of Immunology, Munich) reported positive cytotoxicity tests between the cells of related donors who showed no serological evidence of mismatch. An even more subtle source of graft rejection which is not detected by either of these tests is the ill-understood mismatch that will lead heterozygous F 1 mice to reject parental bone marrow though they will accept skin grafts. G. Cudkowicz (State University of Buffalo School of Medicine) reported that cells from the F 1 mice which did not lyse parental-strain targets could nonetheless be shown to bind to them in vitro, and suggested that this might correlate with their cytotoxic potential. Whether such subtle effects play any significant part in marrow rejection in human patients is unclear. Although on the whole the chances of success for bone-marrow transplants across MHC mismatches are low, there have been reports of some remarkable successes (O'Reilley & R. Storb, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle). This may be because some MHC antigens are more important than others: W. Elkins (University of Pennsylvania) finds that to minimise graft-versus-host disease in mice it is more important to match for!-region antigens (the mouse equivalent of the human DR antigens) than for K or D antigens (the mouse equivalent of the human A and B antigens). The other possibility is that serological mismatches may not always be a reliable indicator of a strong T cell reponse in an individual case. Given that perfect tissue matching will almost never be possible, and that mismatching of minor transplantation antigens will always cause graft-versus-host disease except in monozygotic twins, can anything be done to remove the cells that will react against the host before the bone marrow is transplanted? Much effort has gone into establishing the identity of the cells in question, and S. Theirfelder (Institute of Haematology, GSF, Munich) and W. MUller-Ruchholz (Kiel University) have both contributed to their identification as T cells. J. Sprent …