Prolonged graft survival in older recipient mice is determined by impaired effector T-cell but intact regulatory T-cell responses.

Elderly organ transplant recipients represent a fast growing segment of patients on the waiting list. We examined age-dependent CD4(+) T-cell functions in a wild-type (WT) and a transgenic mouse transplant model and analyzed the suppressive function of old regulatory T-cells. We found that splenocyt...

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Main Authors: Christian Denecke, Damanpreet Singh Bedi, Xupeng Ge, Irene Kyung-Eun Kim, Anke Jurisch, Anne Weiland, Antje Habicht, Xian C Li, Stefan G Tullius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2821908?pdf=render