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Recipient intramuscular cotransfection of transforming growth factor beta1 and interleukin 10 ameliorates acute lung graft rejection.

Suda T, Daddi N, Tagawa T, Kanaan SA, Kozower BD, Ritter JH, Patterson GA

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.

OBJECTIVE: Multiple gene transfer might permit modulation of concurrent biochemical pathways involved in acute lung graft rejection. We investigated whether gene cotransfection into the recipient reduces acute lung graft rejection. METHODS: Brown Norway rats were used as donors, and F344 rats were used as recipients. Recipient animals were injected with saline (groups I/VI) or 1 x 10(10) pfu of adenovirus encoding beta-galactosidase (groups II/VII), transforming growth factor beta1 (groups III/VIII), interleukin 10 (groups IV/IX), or both transforming growth factor beta1 and interleukin 10 (groups V/X) into both leg muscles 2 days before transplantation (groups I-V) or at the time of harvest (groups VI-X). The Kruskal-Wallis test for rejection score and 1-way analysis of variance were used to compare groups. RESULTS: Oxygenation was significantly improved in the cotransfected groups treated 2 days before transplantation and at the time of harvest. Rejection scores were also reduced in the cotransfected groups. In group V cotransfection suppressed endogenous interleukin 2 but not interferon gamma and tumor necrosis factor alpha. CONCLUSION: Recipient intramuscular cotransfection of transforming growth factor beta1 and interleukin 10 suppressed interleukin 2 expression and provided a synergistic effect that reduced acute lung graft rejection. This approach might be applied to the clinical setting because transplant recipients could be treated at the time of implantation.

Published 11 April 2005 in J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 129(4): 926-31.
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