Site of influx of inflammatory white cells into a rejecting rat renal allograft

Transplantation. 1989 Apr;47(4):577-9. doi: 10.1097/00007890-198904000-00001.

Abstract

In this paper we demonstrate that the vascular endothelium of a normal kidney and a syngeneic kidney graft binds only poorly syngeneic or allogeneic lymphocytes in an in vitro binding assay. On the contrary, the peritubular capillary endothelium of an allograft binds almost 7 times more lymphocytes than the peritubular capillary of a normal kidney. These findings suggest that the site of influx of inflammatory capillary white cells into the graft during rejection is the peritubular capillary endothelium.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Capillaries / pathology
  • Endothelium, Vascular / pathology*
  • Graft Rejection*
  • Inflammation / pathology
  • Kidney / pathology
  • Kidney Transplantation*
  • Lymphocytes / classification
  • Lymphocytes / pathology*
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Transplantation, Homologous