Abstract
We studied the effect of transplanting lymphohematopoietic grafts across major histocompatibility barriers into mice conditioned with either single dose 900 rad total body irradiation (TBI), fractionated 17 × 200 rad total lymphoid irradiation (TLI, or single dose 900 rad TLI plus cyclophosphamide (TLI + CY). In all three conditioning regimens, survival following BALB c → C57BL 6 grafting was inversely related to the number of immunocompetent T cells in the donor graft. These findings show that regardless of conditioning protocol (TBI or TLI), it was not possible to protect mice from lethal GvHD when the number of T cells in donor grafts approximated those found in patient bone marrow aspirates. When T cells were eliminated from the donor graft by pretreatment with monoclonal anti-Thy 1.2 plus complement prior to injection into TBI-conditioned recipients, long-term protection from lethal GvHD was indeed possible.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 437-447 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - May 1982 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:...T his article is dedicated to Robert A. Good on the occasion of his 60th birthday. I This work was supported in part by National Cancer Institute Grants POl-CA-15548, CA-24794 and ROl-CA31618 the Pediatric Oncology Program Project POI-CA21737, University of Minnesota Graduate School Grant 488-0325-4909-02, and the Hubert H. Humphrey Cancer Fund. 2 Abbreviations used: TLI, total lymphoid irradiation; TBI, total body irradiation; BMS, bone marrow plus spleen; CY, cyclophosphamide; GvHD, graft-versus-host disease; C, ComPlement: BM, bone marrow: PBM, peripheral blood mononuclear cell; FITC, fluorescein isothiocyanate conjugated.