Critical role of natural killer cells in the rejection of human hepatocytes after xenotransplantation into immunodeficient mice
- 1 February 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Transplant International
- Vol. 23 (9), 934-943
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-2277.2010.01063.x
Abstract
The severe combined immunodeficiency/albumin linked-urokinase type plasminogen activator (SCID/Alb-uPA) human liver chimeric mouse model has added a new dimension to studies of liver based human diseases and has important potential for study of human hepatic drug metabolism. However, it remains unclear if natural killer (NK) cell in SCID/Alb-uPA mice has an important negative impact on engraftment and expansion of human hepatocytes after transplantation. Here, we explore the role of mouse NK cells in the rejection of transplanted human hepatocytes in SCID/Alb-uPA mice. We assessed NK cell activity in vivo, using (125)I-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine incorporation assay. Low serum human alpha-1 antitrypsin (hAAT, 100 microg/ml) recipients accepted MHC class I knockout marrow, indicating a correlation between low NK cell activity, in vivo, and high level human hepatocyte engraftment. We also showed that higher level engraftment of human hepatocytes was achieved in both NK cell-depleted SCID/Alb-uPA mice and Rag2(-/-)gammac(-/-)/Alb-uPA (T,B and NK cell deficient) mice compared with untreated SCID/Alb-uPA mice. These results support a critical role for mouse NK cells in the rejection of human hepatocytes xenotransplanted to immunodeficient mice.Keywords
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