Journal article
Cyclosporine suppression of lymphocyte recruitment, regional blood flow, and vascular permeability at sites of allogeneic cellular interactions
Surgery, Vol.94(2), pp.218-224
1983
PMID: 6879440
Abstract
Although cyclosporine (CsA) has been thought to act primarily on the afferent phase of the immune response, we can demonstrate that it also acts at the efferent phase. The effect of CsA on lymphocyte recruitment (LR), regional blood flow (RBF), and vascular permeability (VP) was studied in paired, healed, subcutaneously placed urethane sponge grafts inoculated with specifically sensitized lymphocytes (SSLs) and allogeneic target cells. Intravenous injection of 111In-labelled unsensitized lymphocytes, 86RbCl and 125I-labelled albumin were used to assess LR, RBF, and VP, respectively. Suspensions of SSL and targets in CsA at 10 and 1 microgram/ml prior to graft inoculation markedly reduce the preferential increase in LR to the site of interaction between SSLs and targets bearing the sensitizing alloantigen (P less than 0.002 for both). Similarly, CsA blocks the preferential increase in RBF (P = 0.017) and VP (P less than 0.002) to the graft site. These effects persist for at least 24 hours. If SSLs and targets are washed after incubation with CsA, LR is still reduced. These results are consistent with the idea that cell-bound CsA blocks the elaboration of lymphokines which results from the interaction between SSLs and specific alloantigen in vivo. These lymphokines increase RBF and VP and are accompanied by an increase in LR. Inhibition of these vascular effects may prevent the recruitment of additional lymphocytes to the graft site. CsA may, therefore, prevent or interrupt allograft rejection by blocking amplification of the rejection mechanism at the graft site.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cyclosporine suppression of lymphocyte recruitment, regional blood flow, and vascular permeability at sites of allogeneic cellular interactions
- Creators
- D. W HANTO - Univ. Minnesota, health sci. centerJ. T HARTY - Univ. Minnesota, health sci. centerR HOFFMAN - Univ. Minnesota, health sci. centerR. L SIMMONS - Univ. Minnesota, health sci. center
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Surgery, Vol.94(2), pp.218-224
- Publisher
- Elsevier; New York, NY
- PMID
- 6879440
- ISSN
- 0039-6060
- eISSN
- 1532-7361
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1983
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Pathology
- Record Identifier
- 9984047676302771
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