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S Stepkowski

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Enhancement of cardiac allografts in rats at the major AbG locus. I. Synergistic effect of specific and non-specific immunosuppression.

Investigations of the specific and nonspecific immunosupression of heart transplants in rats are presented. Pretreatment of the Wistar recipient of the August heart with donor strain cellular antigen and anti-donor hyperimmune serum 11 and 10 days before transplantation caused enhancement of the heart graft in this strain combination differing in the major AgB histocompatibility locus. Combination of that protocol with non-specific immunosuppression, i.e. ATS treatment caused synergistic effect. Heart grafts in animal treated with that full protocol of biological immunosuppression survived for 50.8 days.

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Active enhancement of dog kidney allografts using ALG and donor platelets.

The results of the studies indicate that platelets can be used as donor specific antigen in protocols of "biological suppression". Administration of donor specific platelets 10 days after transplantation to unmatched mongrel dogs treated for a brief period with ALG resulted in a marked prolongation of kidney allograft survival. Acute rejection of a second kidney from an indifferent donor suggests that a state of specific unresponsiveness was achieved by recipients pretreatment with ALG and donor antigen challenge.

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