SIGNIFICANT PROLONGATION OF HAMSTER LIVER TRANSPLANT SURVIVAL IN LEWIS RATS BY TOTAL-LYMPHOID IRRADIATION, CYCLOSPORINE, AND SPLENECTOMY
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Transplantation
- Vol. 49 (1) , 13-16
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007890-199001000-00003
Abstract
The effects of total lymphoid irradiation, cyclosporine and splenectomy alone and in combination have been studied in liver transplants from the LVG hamster to the LEW rat. Neither CsA alone, splenectomy alone, nor TLI alone prolonged graft survival. CsA/splenectomy and TLI/CsA produced significant prolongation of graft survival. TLI/CsA/spelenctomy prolonged graft survival by over sixfold compared with controls. While CsA alone was ineffective in reducing lymphocytotoxic antidonor antibody, splenectomy alone or CsA/splenectomy did significantly suppress production of antibody. Only very low levels of antibody could be detected in animals treated with TLI/CsA/splenectomy. TLI/CsA/splenectomy has an immunosuppressive effect sufficient to significantly prolong liver graft survival in the LVG hamster to LEW rat combination and may represent a promising treatment protocol in experimental cross-species transplantation.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: