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SUBMITTER: Singh A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6677762 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190802 1
Immune tolerance to allografts has been pursued for decades as an important goal in transplantation. Administration of apoptotic donor splenocytes effectively induces antigen-specific tolerance to allografts in murine studies. Here we show that two peritransplant infusions of apoptotic donor leukocytes under short-term immunotherapy with antagonistic anti-CD40 antibody 2C10R4, rapamycin, soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor and anti-interleukin 6 receptor antibody induce long-term (≥1 year) to ...[more]