Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Shinoda K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4523231 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shinoda K K Akiyoshi T T Chase C M CM Farkash E A EA Ndishabandi D K DK Raczek C M CM Sebastian D P DP Pelle P Della PD Russell P S PS Madsen J C JC Colvin R B RB Alessandrini A A
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20140825 10
The relative contribution of central and peripheral mechanisms to the generation and maintenance of allograft tolerance is of considerable interest. Here, we present new evidence that regulatory T cells (Foxp3(+) ) maintain skin and heart allograft tolerance in mixed hematopoietic chimeric mice. Transient depletion of both donor- and recipient-derived Foxp3(+) cells was necessary and sufficient to induce decisive rejection of long-accepted skin and heart allografts. In contrast, stable hematopoi ...[more]