Prolonged survival of neonatal porcine islet xenografts in mice treated with a donor-specific transfusion and anti-CD154 antibody.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2004

Keywords

Animals, Animals-Newborn, Antibodies-Monoclonal, Blood-Glucose, CD40-Ligand, Cell-Differentiation, Combined-Modality-Therapy, Diabetes-Mellitus-Type-I, Graft-Rejection, Graft-Survival, Immunocompetence, Islets-of-Langerhans, Islets-of-Langerhans-Transplantation, Leukocyte-Transfusion, Mice-Inbred-C57BL, Mice-Inbred-NOD, Mice-SCID, Spleen, Transplantation-Heterologous

First Page

1341

Last Page

1349

JAX Location

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JAX Source

Transplantation 2004 May; 77(9):1341-9.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Combined treatment with a single donor-specific transfusion (DST) and a brief course of anti-mouse CD154 monoclonal antibody (mAb) to induce co-stimulation blockade leads to long-term murine islet allograft survival. The authors hypothesized that this protocol could also induce long-term survival of neonatal porcine islet cell clusters (NPCC) in chemically diabetic immunocompetent mice and allow their differentiation into functional insulin-producing cells. METHODS: Pancreata from 1- to 3-day-old pigs were collagenase digested and cultured for 8 days. NPCC were recovered and transplanted into the renal subcapsular space. Recipients included chemically diabetic nonobese diabetic (NOD)-scid and C57BL/6 mice that were otherwise untreated, treated with anti-CD154 mAb alone, or treated with DST plus anti-CD154 mAb. Plasma glucose concentration and body weight were measured, and xenografts were examined histologically. RESULTS: NPCC fully differentiated and restored normoglycemia in four of five diabetic NOD-scid recipients but were uniformly rejected by diabetic C57BL/6 recipients. Anti-CD154 mAb monotherapy restored normoglycemia in 4 of 10 (40%) NPCC-engrafted, chemically diabetic C57BL/6 mice, but combined treatment with DST and anti-CD154 mAb restored normoglycemia in 12 of 13 (92%) recipients. Reversal of diabetes required 5 to 12 weeks. Surviving grafts were essentially free of inflammatory infiltrates 15 weeks after transplantation. CONCLUSIONS: Combination therapy with a single DST and a brief course of anti-mouse CD154 mAb without maintenance immunosuppression permits survival and differentiation of NPCC in diabetic C57BL/6 mice. Successful grafts were associated with durable restoration of normoglycemia and the absence of graft inflammation.

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