PMID- 9249935 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19970911 LR - 20190914 IS - 0934-0874 (Print) IS - 0934-0874 (Linking) VI - 10 IP - 4 DP - 1997 TI - Suppressed alloreactivity and mixed chimerism in rats with accepted cardiac allografts by intrathymic injection of donor bone marrow cells. PG - 262-7 AB - Intrathymic injection of donor bone marrow cells (ITBMCs) at the time of transplantation and treatment with antilymphocyte serum (ALS) permitted the indefinite survival of Brown Norway (BN, RT1n) rat heart grafts in 6 out of 8 Lewis (LEW, RT1l) rat recipients, LEW recipients with long-surviving BN heart grafts (LSGs) also accepted additional BN heart grafts without further immunosuppression, though they rejected Piebald Virol Glaxo (PVG, RT1c) rat heart grafts in the usual fashion. In the in vitro study, the proliferative response of the lymphocytes from LEW recipients with LSGs remained suppressed when they were stimulated by BN spleen cells, but not when stimulated by PVG cells. Bone marrow cells (BMCs) from LEW rats with LSGs showed strong, nonspecific, suppressive effects on the proliferative response in the mixed lymphocyte culture reaction, suggesting that one of the possible explanations for tolerance might be the involvement of a suppressor mechanism. FAU - Matsuura, T AU - Matsuura T AD - Department of Urology, Osaka Teishin Hospital, Japan. FAU - Imanishi, M AU - Imanishi M FAU - Hara, Y AU - Hara Y FAU - Nishioka, T AU - Nishioka T FAU - Kunikata, S AU - Kunikata S FAU - Akiyama, T AU - Akiyama T FAU - Kurita, T AU - Kurita T LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - Switzerland TA - Transpl Int JT - Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation JID - 8908516 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - *Bone Marrow Cells MH - *Cell Transplantation MH - Chimera MH - Graft Survival MH - Heart Transplantation/*immunology MH - *Immune Tolerance MH - Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed MH - Male MH - Rats MH - Rats, Inbred BN MH - Rats, Inbred Lew MH - Skin Transplantation MH - Transplantation, Homologous EDAT- 1997/01/01 00:00 MHDA- 1997/01/01 00:01 CRDT- 1997/01/01 00:00 PHST- 1997/01/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1997/01/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1997/01/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s001470050055 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Transpl Int. 1997;10(4):262-7. doi: 10.1007/s001470050055.