Alloreactive T Cell Responses and Acute Rejection of Single Class II MHC-Disparate Heart Allografts Are under Strict Regulation by CD4+CD25+ T Cells

  • Schenk S
  • Kish D
  • He C
  • et al.
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Abstract

Skin but not vascularized cardiac allografts from B6.H-2bm12 mice are acutely rejected by C57BL/6 recipients in response to the single class II MHC disparity. The underlying mechanisms preventing acute rejection of B6.H-2bm12 heart allografts by C57BL/6 recipients were investigated. B6.H-2bm12 heart allografts induced low levels of alloreactive effector T cell priming in C57BL/6 recipients, and this priming was accompanied by low-level cellular infiltration into the allograft that quickly resolved. Recipients with long-term-surviving heart allografts were unable to reject B6.H-2bm12 skin allografts, suggesting potential down-regulatory mechanisms induced by the cardiac allografts. Depletion of CD25+ cells from C57BL/6 recipients resulted in 15-fold increases in alloreactive T cell priming and in acute rejection of B6.H-2bm12 heart grafts. Similarly, reconstitution of B6.Rag−/− recipients with wild-type C57BL/6 splenocytes resulted in acute rejection of B6.H-2bm12 heart grafts only if CD25+ cells were depleted. These results indicate that acute rejection of single class II MHC-disparate B6.H-2bm12 heart allografts by C57BL/6 recipients is inhibited by the emergence of CD25+ regulatory cells that restrict the clonal expansion of alloreactive T cells.

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Schenk, S., Kish, D. D., He, C., El-Sawy, T., Chiffoleau, E., Chen, C., … Fairchild, R. L. (2005). Alloreactive T Cell Responses and Acute Rejection of Single Class II MHC-Disparate Heart Allografts Are under Strict Regulation by CD4+CD25+ T Cells. The Journal of Immunology, 174(6), 3741–3748. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.174.6.3741

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