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We studied the effects of anti-CD4 treatment of diabetic ACI rats on the induction of tolerance to allogeneic (Lewis) islet allografts. When given as a 4-day treatment regimen, OX38, a mouse anti-rat CD4 antibody, caused depletion of greater than 80% of CD4+ cells from the peripheral blood of treated rats. After induction of diabetes (a single high-dose bolus of streptozocin) and 3 days after the initiation of anti-CD4 immunotherapy, recipient ACI rats were transplanted with fully allogeneic (Lewis) islets of Langerhans via the portal circulation. These transplanted islets were capable of returning the anti-CD4-treated ACI recipients to normoglycemia, which was maintained indefinitely in the absence of further immunosuppression. In contrast, treatment of recipient rats with OX8, an anti-CD8 monoclonal antibody (MoAb), induced only a slight prolongation of graft survival (less than or equal to 30 days). Further characterization of the cellular requirements for the induction of long-term transplantation survival revealed that successful pretransplantation anti-CD4 therapy could be ablated by the coincident treatment of recipient rats with depleting levels of anti-CD8 MoAb. These data point to the necessity of a regulator CD8+ cell in the induction of anti-CD4-mediated transplantation survival in this rat model of islet transplantation.
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D Grossman, and
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S Alters, and
C G Fathman
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K Seydel, and
J Shizuru, and
D Grossman, and
A Wu, and
S Alters, and
C G Fathman
April 1993,
Transplantation,
K Seydel, and
J Shizuru, and
D Grossman, and
A Wu, and
S Alters, and
C G Fathman
June 1994,
Transplantation proceedings,
K Seydel, and
J Shizuru, and
D Grossman, and
A Wu, and
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C G Fathman
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Transplantation,
K Seydel, and
J Shizuru, and
D Grossman, and
A Wu, and
S Alters, and
C G Fathman
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K Seydel, and
J Shizuru, and
D Grossman, and
A Wu, and
S Alters, and
C G Fathman
February 1989,
Transplantation proceedings,
K Seydel, and
J Shizuru, and
D Grossman, and
A Wu, and
S Alters, and
C G Fathman
January 1996,
Transplantation,
K Seydel, and
J Shizuru, and
D Grossman, and
A Wu, and
S Alters, and
C G Fathman
December 1992,
Transplantation,
K Seydel, and
J Shizuru, and
D Grossman, and
A Wu, and
S Alters, and
C G Fathman
January 1997,
Transplantation proceedings,
K Seydel, and
J Shizuru, and
D Grossman, and
A Wu, and
S Alters, and
C G Fathman
February 1993,
Transplantation proceedings,
