T-cell growth factors and the allograft response
作者:
Xian Li,
Terry Strom,
期刊:
Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation
(OVID Available online 2003)
卷期:
Volume 8,
issue 1
页码: 19-24
ISSN:1087-2418
年代: 2003
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Allograft rejection-like tolerance is a T-cell–mediated event. Acquisition of transplant tolerance, however, is a learned process, and T cells need to engage actively in alloantigens to learn to tolerate the graft. T-cell growth factors play an important role in regulating multiple aspects of the allograft response. It is true that T-cell growth factors can drive clonal expansion and functional maturation of alloreactive T cells; therefore, targeting growth factors and their receptor components remains one of the key aspects in transplantation. There is compelling evidence that growth factors also regulate the induction of peripheral allograft tolerance through programming activated T cells for apoptosis and guiding the development of regulatory T cells. Thus, understanding precisely the role of T-cell growth factors in regulating T-cell homeostasis and in developing active immune regulation is critically important in transplant tolerance.
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