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Allan JS, Wain JC, Schwarze ML, Houser SL, Benjamin LC, Madsen JC, Sachs DH. Modeling chronic lung allograft rejection in miniature swine. Transplantation 2002; 73:447-53. [PMID: 11884943 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200202150-00020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND The success of lung transplantation has been limited by the perplexing problem of chronic rejection. The development of a large-animal model for the systematic study of the mechanisms underlying chronic lung rejection has been problematic. We have developed a new preclinical model of chronic lung rejection using MHC-inbred miniature swine. METHODS Using standard operative techniques, four orthotopic left lung allografts were performed using MHC-matched, minor-antigen-mismatched donors. Recipient animals received a 12-day course of postoperative cyclosporine. Grafts were followed with open biopsies and high-resolution computed tomography. Cellular immune responses were monitored by mixed lymphocyte reaction, cytometric analysis of graft-infiltrating lymphocytes, and skin grafting. RESULTS All grafts survived > or = 5 months and developed manifestations of chronic rejection, including obliterative bronchiolitis, interstitial fibrosis, and occlusive vasculopathy. A mononuclear infiltrate was also present in all grafts by the fourth posttransplant month. High-resolution computed tomography demonstrated several cardinal radiographic findings known to correlate with chronic rejection. Cytometric analysis of graft-infiltrating lymphocytes showed a predominance of CD8+ cells. The development of alloreactivity in the host was confirmed by mixed lymphocyte reaction and skin grafting. CONCLUSIONS We report a reproducible, whole-lung, large-animal model of chronic lung rejection. In this immunogenetically defined construct, we have observed a full spectrum of histopathologic lesions that reproduce with fidelity those lesions observed in human lung transplant recipients suffering from chronic rejection. We anticipate that this preclinical model will facilitate further study of the pathogenesis and therapy of chronic lung rejection.
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- James S Allan
- Division of Thoracic Surgery, and the Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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Najafian N, Salama AD, Fedoseyeva EV, Benichou G, Sayegh MH. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot assay analysis of peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to donor HLA-DR peptides: potential novel assay for prediction of outcomes for renal transplant recipients. J Am Soc Nephrol 2002; 13:252-259. [PMID: 11752045 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v131252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Chronic allograft dysfunction, which is the most common cause of late allograft failure, is in part caused by an ongoing immune response orchestrated by T lymphocytes primed by the indirect pathway of allorecognition. The low frequencies of such T cells have made it difficult to study indirect alloreactivity by using currently available assays. The development of a sensitive, clinically useful method of measuring indirect alloreactivity among human renal transplant recipients was thus attempted. Furthermore, in a pilot immunologic study, the contribution of the indirect pathway was studied in two groups of renal transplant recipients, i.e., patients with no prior acute rejection episodes and stable renal function ("stable" patients) and patients with at least one previous episode of biopsy-proven acute rejection, who were thus at risk for the development of chronic rejection ("high-risk" patients). The frequencies of type 1 T helper (interferon-gamma-producing) and type 2 T helper (interleukin-5- and -10-producing) peripheral blood lymphocytes reactive with a panel of synthetic peptides (corresponding to sequences from donor HLA-DR molecules) were determined for renal transplant recipients and normal control subjects by using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot assay (ELISPOT). Among recipients of DR-mismatched allografts, a cut-off value of 60 interferon-gamma spots/10(6) cells significantly (P = 0.02) separated stable patients (creatinine concentration, 1.1 +/- 0.3 mg/dl) from high-risk patients (creatinine concentration, 2.3 +/- 1.7 mg/dl). This is the first demonstration that the enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot assay can be used to monitor indirect alloreactivity to donor HLA-DR peptides among renal transplant recipients. These data provide the rationale for the prospective study of indirect alloreactivity among transplant recipients, to allow predictions of which patients would be at risk for the development of chronic rejection and thus allow appropriate planning of future interventions.
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- Nader Najafian
- *Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplantation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Nephrology Division, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory, Schepens Eye Research Institute, and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- *Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplantation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Nephrology Division, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory, Schepens Eye Research Institute, and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- *Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplantation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Nephrology Division, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory, Schepens Eye Research Institute, and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- *Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplantation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Nephrology Division, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory, Schepens Eye Research Institute, and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- *Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplantation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Nephrology Division, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory, Schepens Eye Research Institute, and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Rolls HK, Kishimoto K, Illigens BM, Dong V, Sayegh MH, Benichou G, Fedoseyeva EV. Detection of cardiac myosin-specific autoimmunity in a model of chronic heart allograft rejection. Transplant Proc 2001; 33:3821-2. [PMID: 11750627 DOI: 10.1016/s0041-1345(01)02617-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- H K Rolls
- Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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Lovegrove E, Pettigrew GJ, Bolton EM, Bradley JA. Epitope mapping of the indirect T cell response to allogeneic class I MHC: sequences shared by donor and recipient MHC may prime T cells that provide help for alloantibody production. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 167:4338-44. [PMID: 11591757 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.8.4338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Indirect allorecognition occurs when T cells recognize donor MHC presented as peptide epitopes by recipient APC, but the precise nature of the epitopes involved remains unclear. Rejection of rat MHC class I-disparate PVG.R8 (RT1.A(a)) grafts by PVG.RT1(u) (RT1.A(u)) recipients is mediated by indirectly restricted CD4 T cells that provide help for the generation of alloantibody. In this study, epitope mapping was performed using a functionally relevant readout (alloantibody production) to identify key peptides that prime an indirect alloimmune response, leading to graft rejection. PVG.RT1(u) rats were immunized with a series of overlapping 15-mer peptides (peptides 1-18) that spanned the alpha1 and alpha2 domains of the RT1.A(a) molecule. Several peptides were able to accelerate both the alloantibody response to the intact RT1.A(a) Ag and PVG.R8 heart graft rejection. An immunodominant epitope was identified within the hypervariable region of the alpha1 domain. Fine mapping of this region with a second series of peptides overlapping by single amino acids confirmed the presence of an eight-amino acid core determinant. Additional "subdominant" epitopes were identified, two of which were located within regions of amino acid homology between the RT1.A(a) and RT1.A(u) molecules and not, as had been expected, within other hypervariable regions. The contribution of self-epitopes to indirect allorecognition was emphasized by the demonstration that i.v. administration of a 15-mer peptide encompassing one of the subdominant self-determinants diminished the recipient's ability to mount an alloantibody response on challenge with intact A(a) alloantigen. Our findings suggest that cryptic self-epitopes recognized by autoreactive T cells may contribute to allograft rejection and should be considered when designing novel strategies for inducing tolerance to alloantigen.
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- E Lovegrove
- Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Guillet M, Sebille F, Soulillou J. TCR usage in naive and committed alloreactive cells: implications for the understanding of TCR biases in transplantation. Curr Opin Immunol 2001; 13:566-71. [PMID: 11544005 DOI: 10.1016/s0952-7915(00)00260-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The direct pathway of allorecognition is involved in acute allograft rejection and is characterised by TCR-mediated recognition of the MHC framework; this is thought to occur in a peptide-dependent but not peptide-specific manner. In contrast, the indirect pathway is restricted to the recipient's own MHC molecules and prevails in chronic rejection. In this pathway, the peptide has a major influence on the TCR recognition and selects alloreactive T cells with altered TCR Vbeta usage. However, qualitative analysis of Vbeta usage alone might limit our understanding of alloreactivity. The advantages of a combined quantitative assessment of Vbeta mRNA usage are discussed.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Humans
- Interphase/immunology
- Isoantigens/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- Transplantation Immunology/immunology
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- M Guillet
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 437, Immunointervention dans les Allo- et les Xéno-transplantations, 30 Boulevard Jean Monnet, 44093 Nantes 01, Cedex, France
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