Persistent irritation of the soft tissue around an osseointegrated titanium implant. Case report |
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Authors: | KM Holgers P Thomsen A Tjellstr?m |
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Affiliation: | Department of Surgery, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. |
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Abstract: | Specific adhesion molecules stabilize the binding between lymphocytes and antigen bearing cells; this intercellular adhesion is vital to both the affector and effector phases of an immune response. It is not known whether adhesion molecules and their counter-receptors can form the cross-species interactions that will facilitate human T cell recognition of xenogeneic porcine target cells. In this report it is demonstrated that a higher proportion of mitogen-activated than of resting human lymphocytes adhere to cultured porcine renal epithelial cells. Furthermore, antibody blocking experiments demonstrated that at least part of this cell-cell binding is stabilized by the human adhesion molecules LFA-1 (lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1) and the alpha 4-containing integrins. It is possible that this capacity for cross-species adhesion will play a role during the cell-mediated rejection of clinical porcine xenografts. |
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