In Vivo Models for the Study of Transplantation Tolerance
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Experimental models of transplantation remain essential tools for the study of immunological tolerance. The immunological
mechanisms resulting in acute allograft rejection may differ depending on the tissue transplanted and the antigenic mismatch
between donor and recipient. Murine skin grafting is a model frequently used to study transplantation tolerance because it
is readily learned and is not time consuming. Second grafts can be performed easily to confirm the induction of tolerance
and its antigenic specificity. However, these grafts are strongly immunogenic and secondarily revascularized and may not,
therefore, reproduce the conditions operating in clinical transplantation of primarily revascularized organs, such as the
kidney and heart. Experimental rodent models of revascularized solid organ transplantation have been established, but given
the technical skills required to perform them, are beyond the scope of this chapter. However, cellular transplants, including
the use of islets, are of interest as they are being developed clinically and can be reproduced experimentally. Here, we describe
the technique of renal subcapsular transplantation of pancreatic islets of Langerhans.
Book Title: Immunological Tolerance: Methods and Protocols
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 380 | Pub. Date: Jun-08-2007 | Page Range: 337-346 | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-395-0_20
Subject: Immunology
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