Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in irradiated adult rabbits.
Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in irradiated adult rabbits.
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受辐射成年兔的同种异体骨髓移植。
DOI:
10.1097/00007890-198709000-00005
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发表时间:
1987
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影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
Appelbaum,FR
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作者:
Bigelow,CL;Adler,LT;Appelbaum,FR
In an effort to produce stable, long-term, complete hematopoietic chimerism in unrelated RLA-matched adult rabbits, the maximum dose of total-body irradiation (TBI) tolerated both with and without autologous marrow support was defined, and it was then deter-mined whether the maximum tolerated dose was suffi-ciently immunosuppressive and myeloablative to allow engraftment of allogeneic marrow. Forty rabbits received TBI at 4, 8 cGy/min at doses from 525-925 cGy. All rabbits receiving 525, 625, 725 and 825 cGy sur-vived without marrow transplantation. At 875 cGy 50% of animals died and at 925 cGy all animals died within 96 hr of TBI. Survival was not changed with autologous marrow support, with all animals receiving 825 cGy surviving, while 50% survived at 875 cGy, and none at 925 cGy. Two RLA-matched, sex and immunoglobulin allotype-mismatched pairs were transplanted following 825 cGy and were given posttransplant cyclosporine. Both recipients survived beyond 200 days posttransplant, with cytogenetic and immunoglobulin allotype evidence of complete, or nearly complete, hematopoietic engraftment. Thus, stable, long-term complete chimer-ism can be achieved in adult RLA-matched unrelated rabbits prepared by TBI, and this animal model can be used for bone marrow transplantation studies.The ability to transplant marrow has found a number of clinical uses. In patients with aplastic anemia, thalassemia, or other nonmalignant disorders of the marrow, bone marrow transplantation has demonstrated curative potential (1, 2). Marrow transplantation also provides a means of overcoming the usual dose-limiting toxicity of chemoradiotherapy, allowing the delivery of higher doses. This approach provides a means of curing patients with otherwise incurable hematologic malignancies, including chronic myelogenous leukemia, relapsed acute leukemia, and malignant lymphoma (3, 4). Marrow transplantation has also been used to treat metabolic disorders involving nonhematopoietic, as well as hematopoietic, cells (5, 6). In this setting, marrow transplantation provides the deficient patient with a source of normal enzymes or receptors in the normal transplanted marrow. Studies in inbred rodents have provided much of the basic knowledge of the immunogenetics of marrow transplantation. However, some of the information obtained is difficult to transfer to man, a random-bred species. Larger mammals such as