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Induction of tolerance in clinical kidney transplantation
Tatsuo Kawai1, A Benedict Cosimi
1Massachusetts General Hospital, Transplant Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. tatkawai@verizon.net
Induction of donor-specific tolerance has been an ultimate goal in organ transplantation. Although numerous regimens for the induction of allograft tolerance have been developed in rodents, their application to primates has been limited. The approaches that have been successfully applied in primates can be divided into (i) use of total lymphoid irradiation, (ii) costimulatory blockade, (iii) profound depletion of recipient T cells, (iv) infusion of regulatory cells and (v) donor bone marrow (DBM) infusion/transplantation. Among these approaches, successful allograft tolerance has been achieved in clinical kidney transplantation using DBM transplantation.
Induction of donor-specific tolerance has been an ultimate goal in organ transplantation. Although numerous regimens for the induction of allograft tolerance have been developed in rodents, their application to primates has been limited. The approaches that have been successfully applied in primates can be divided into (i) use of total lymphoid irradiation, (ii) costimulatory blockade, (iii) profound depletion of recipient T cells, (iv) infusion of regulatory cells and (v) donor bone marrow (DBM) infusion/transplantation. Among these approaches, successful allograft tolerance has been achieved in clinical kidney transplantation using DBM transplantation.
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