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Transplantation Biology Research Center and
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129
Previous studies in our laboratory have demonstrated that the presence of the thymus is essential for rapid and stable tolerance induction in allotransplant models. We now report an attempt to induce tolerance to kidney allografts by transplanting donor thymic grafts simultaneously with the kidney in thymectomized recipients. Recipients were thymectomized 3 wk before receiving an organ and/or tissues from a class I-mismatched donor. Recipients received 1) a kidney allograft alone, 2) a composite allogeneic thymokidney (kidney with vascularized autologous thymic tissue under its capsule), or 3) separate kidney and thymic grafts from the same donor. All recipients received a 12-day course of cyclosporine. Thymectomized animals receiving a kidney allograft alone or receiving separate thymic and kidney grafts had unstable renal function due to severe rejection with the persistence of anti-donor cytotoxic T cell reactivity. In contrast, recipients of composite thymokidney grafts had stable renal function with no evidence of rejection histologically and donor-specific unresponsiveness. By postoperative day 14, the thymic tissue in the thymokidney contained recipient-type dendritic cells. By postoperative day 60, recipient-type class I positive thymocytes appeared in the thymic medulla, indicating thymopoiesis. T cells were both recipient and donor MHC-restricted. These data demonstrate that the presence of vascularized-donor thymic tissue induces rapid and stable tolerance to class I-disparate kidney allografts in thymectomized recipients. To our knowledge, this is the first evidence of functional vascularized thymic grafts permitting transplantation tolerance to be induced in a large animal model.
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