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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 184, Issue 2, Pages 535-539Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0903180
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- Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research Erlangen [A9]
- German Research Foundation (Sonderforschungsbereich) [SFB 643: B10]
- National Institutes of Health
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The purpose of this study was to determine the relative importance of blood vessels (hemangiogenesis) versus lymphatic vessels (lymphangiogenesis) in mediating immunological responses after transplantation. Using the murine model of corneal transplantation, graft survival was compared in differentially prevascularized and avascular recipient beds. Donor corneas (C57BL/6) were transplanted into uninflamed or inflamed avascular, prehemvascularized only or prehemvascularized and prelymphvascularized recipient murine eyes (BALB/C). Selective inhibition of lymphangiogenesis was achieved using antivascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 Abs and anti-integrin alpha 5 small molecules. Grafts placed into only prehemvascularized recipient beds had a similarly good graft survival compared with grafts placed,into completely avascular, normal recipients, whereas the pre-existence of lymphatic vessels significantly deteriorated corneal graft survival (p < 0.05). Lymphatic vessels seem to contribute significantly to graft rejection after (corneal) transplantation. That may allow for selective, temporary, perioperative antilymphangiogenic treatment to promote graft survival without affecting blood vessels, even after solid organ transplantation. The Journal of Immunology, 2010, 184:535-539.
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