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Immunogenicity of rat renal allograft nephron components in vivo. Lack of correlation between MHC expression and immunogenic potential.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  2114679     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Cultured rat nephron components--i.e., tubular cells, glomerular mesangial cells, and glomerular epithelial cells--were compared with cultured rat heart endothelial cells for their in vivo immunogenicity using the primed rejection assay (PRA). Gamma-interferon (gIFN) was used to regulate the class I and class II MHC antigen expression of the cells tested. The heart endothelial cells proved to be the only cell type capable of inducing a maximal rejection response in the native state. This was achieved with a cell number of 10(6) when the survival of a subsequent heart allograft from a relevant donor was reduced from 5 to 3 days. All kidney nephron components proved to be immunogenic in PRA but to a far lesser extent than the endothelial cells. A reduction of graft survival from 5 to 4 days was achieved with a cell number of 10(6) cells, and no immunogenic effect (with the exception of mesangial cells contaminated by a small number of macrophages) was observed in smaller cell numbers. The gIFN-treated endothelial cells were more potent than untreated endothelial cells. They reduced the graft survival to 4 days with a cell number of 10(3) and caused a maximal reduction of the survival to 3 days with a cell number of 10(5). The nephron components failed to increase their immunogenicity after 3-day gIFN treatment, regardless of a high increase in their class I and class II expression rates. The study suggests that, in contrast to the endothelial cells, none of the nephron components are able to act as an antigen-presenting cell on their own.
Authors:
J Halttunen
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Transplantation     Volume:  50     ISSN:  0041-1337     ISO Abbreviation:  Transplantation     Publication Date:  1990 Jul 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1990-08-13     Completed Date:  1990-08-13     Revised Date:  2008-11-21    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0132144     Medline TA:  Transplantation     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  150-5     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Transplantation Laboratory, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
Antigen-Presenting Cells / physiology
Cells, Cultured
Graft Rejection
Histocompatibility Antigens Class I / immunology*
Histocompatibility Antigens Class II / immunology*
Interferon-gamma / pharmacology
Kidney Transplantation*
Nephrons / immunology*
Rats
Rats, Inbred Strains
Transplantation, Homologous
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Histocompatibility Antigens Class I; 0/Histocompatibility Antigens Class II; 82115-62-6/Interferon-gamma

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