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Draining Lymph Nodes of Corneal Transplant Hosts Exhibit Evidence for Donor Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Class II–positive Dendritic Cells Derived from MHC Class II–negative Grafts

To examine the widely accepted dogmas that corneal grafts lack passenger leukocytes or cells capable of migrating directly to lymph nodes (LNs), we tracked the migration of corneal graft-derived transgenic green fluorescent protein (GFP; Ia(b)) cells into the draining LNs of allogeneic (Ia(d)) recip...

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Autores principales: Liu, Ying, Hamrah, Pedram, Zhang, Qiang, Taylor, Andrew W., Dana, M. Reza
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Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2193609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11805152
http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20010838
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author Liu, Ying
Hamrah, Pedram
Zhang, Qiang
Taylor, Andrew W.
Dana, M. Reza
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Hamrah, Pedram
Zhang, Qiang
Taylor, Andrew W.
Dana, M. Reza
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description To examine the widely accepted dogmas that corneal grafts lack passenger leukocytes or cells capable of migrating directly to lymph nodes (LNs), we tracked the migration of corneal graft-derived transgenic green fluorescent protein (GFP; Ia(b)) cells into the draining LNs of allogeneic (Ia(d)) recipients. GFP(+) cells were identified in cervical LNs several hours after transplantation, and this traffic was significantly enhanced when grafts were placed in inflamed recipient beds. Draining cells were Ia(b+), CD45(+), and CD11c(+), and examination of ungrafted corneas revealed numerous similarly CD45(+)CD11c(+)CD3(−)CD8α(−) cells that uniformly lacked major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II expression; transmission electron microscopy confirmed the presence of morphologically similar cells. After transplantation, or placement in culture, these CD11c(+) cells became class II(+) in a time-dependent manner and were capable of allostimulatory function. However, the stimulatory capacity of these cornea-derived dendritic cells (DCs) was suppressed compared with splenic controls. These results demonstrate for the first time that the cornea is endowed with resident DCs that are universally MHC class II(−) but that are capable of expressing class II antigen after surgery and migrating to draining LNs of allografted hosts. These data refute the tenet that the cornea is immune privileged due to lack of resident lymphoreticular cells or due to antigenic sequestration from systemic immunity.
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spelling pubmed-21936092008-04-14 Draining Lymph Nodes of Corneal Transplant Hosts Exhibit Evidence for Donor Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Class II–positive Dendritic Cells Derived from MHC Class II–negative Grafts Liu, Ying Hamrah, Pedram Zhang, Qiang Taylor, Andrew W. Dana, M. Reza J Exp Med Original Article To examine the widely accepted dogmas that corneal grafts lack passenger leukocytes or cells capable of migrating directly to lymph nodes (LNs), we tracked the migration of corneal graft-derived transgenic green fluorescent protein (GFP; Ia(b)) cells into the draining LNs of allogeneic (Ia(d)) recipients. GFP(+) cells were identified in cervical LNs several hours after transplantation, and this traffic was significantly enhanced when grafts were placed in inflamed recipient beds. Draining cells were Ia(b+), CD45(+), and CD11c(+), and examination of ungrafted corneas revealed numerous similarly CD45(+)CD11c(+)CD3(−)CD8α(−) cells that uniformly lacked major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II expression; transmission electron microscopy confirmed the presence of morphologically similar cells. After transplantation, or placement in culture, these CD11c(+) cells became class II(+) in a time-dependent manner and were capable of allostimulatory function. However, the stimulatory capacity of these cornea-derived dendritic cells (DCs) was suppressed compared with splenic controls. These results demonstrate for the first time that the cornea is endowed with resident DCs that are universally MHC class II(−) but that are capable of expressing class II antigen after surgery and migrating to draining LNs of allografted hosts. These data refute the tenet that the cornea is immune privileged due to lack of resident lymphoreticular cells or due to antigenic sequestration from systemic immunity. The Rockefeller University Press 2002-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2193609/ /pubmed/11805152 http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20010838 Text en Copyright © 2002, The Rockefeller University Press This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
spellingShingle Original Article
Liu, Ying
Hamrah, Pedram
Zhang, Qiang
Taylor, Andrew W.
Dana, M. Reza
Draining Lymph Nodes of Corneal Transplant Hosts Exhibit Evidence for Donor Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Class II–positive Dendritic Cells Derived from MHC Class II–negative Grafts
title Draining Lymph Nodes of Corneal Transplant Hosts Exhibit Evidence for Donor Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Class II–positive Dendritic Cells Derived from MHC Class II–negative Grafts
title_full Draining Lymph Nodes of Corneal Transplant Hosts Exhibit Evidence for Donor Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Class II–positive Dendritic Cells Derived from MHC Class II–negative Grafts
title_fullStr Draining Lymph Nodes of Corneal Transplant Hosts Exhibit Evidence for Donor Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Class II–positive Dendritic Cells Derived from MHC Class II–negative Grafts
title_full_unstemmed Draining Lymph Nodes of Corneal Transplant Hosts Exhibit Evidence for Donor Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Class II–positive Dendritic Cells Derived from MHC Class II–negative Grafts
title_short Draining Lymph Nodes of Corneal Transplant Hosts Exhibit Evidence for Donor Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Class II–positive Dendritic Cells Derived from MHC Class II–negative Grafts
title_sort draining lymph nodes of corneal transplant hosts exhibit evidence for donor major histocompatibility complex (mhc) class ii–positive dendritic cells derived from mhc class ii–negative grafts
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2193609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11805152
http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20010838
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