Chimerism and Tolerance after Combined Human Kidney and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Using Conditioning with Total Lymphoid Irradiation and Anti-Thymocyte Globulin.
Abstract:Although transplantation tolerance to organ allografts has been achieved using a wide variety of immunologic interventions in laboratory animals, few tolerance induction protocols with complete immunosuppressive drug withdrawal have been tested in humans. In preclinical rodent models our group showed that long-term tolerance to vascularized organ allografts and donor specific unresponsiveness was achieved when hosts developed persistent mixed hematopoietic chimerism following conditioning with nonmyeloablative… Show more
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