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BLOOD
Volume 118, Issue 24, Pages 6403-6406Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-08-374223
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- Canadian Blood Services-Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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To definitively determine whether the neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) is required for the acute amelioration of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) by IVIg, we used FcRn-deficient mice in a murine ITP model. Mice injected with antiplatelet antibody in the presence or absence of IVIg displayed no difference in platelet-associated IgG between FcRn deficient versus C57BL/6 mice. FcRn-deficient mice treated with high-dose (2 g/kg) IVIg or a low-dose (2 mg/kg) of an IVIg-mimetic CD44 antibody were, however, protected from thrombocytopenia to an equivalent extent as wild-type mice. To verify and substantiate the results found with FcRn-deficient mice, we used beta(2)-microglobulin-deficient mice (which do not express functional FcRn) and found that IVIg or CD44 antibody also protected them from thrombocytopenia. These data suggest that for both high-dose IVIg as well as low-dose CD44 antibody treatment in an acute ITP model, FcRn expression is neither necessary nor required. (Blood. 2011;118(24):6403-6406)
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