Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2014, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (5): 791-796.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2014.05.023

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T lymphocytes and immune tolerance of liver transplantation

Cai Qiu-cheng   

  1. Center of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Fuzhou General Hospital, Fuzhou 350025, Fujian Province, China
  • Revised:2013-11-26 Online:2014-01-29 Published:2014-01-29
  • About author:Cai Qiu-cheng, Master, Attending physician, Center of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Fuzhou General Hospital, Fuzhou 350025, Fujian Province, China

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Pathogenesis of liver graft rejection is mainly the immune response mediated by T cells. Low-molecular-weight proteins with high activity and multiple functions that can regulate cell functions, i.e. cytokines, exert an important role in organ-graft-rejection and immune tolerance.

OBJECTIVE: To review the relation and current research of T lymphocytes and immune tolerance of liver transplantation.
METHODS: A computer-based online search was conducted by the first author in Medline and VIP Database from January 1995 to June 2013 for articles concerning immune state after liver transplantation, T lymphocytes and its cytokines. The key words were “liver transplantation, immune tolerance, rejection, T lymphocytes”. Duplicated studies were excluded. Full texts were searched. A total of 57 related articles were accepted. Nine articles concerned the background research of T lymphocytes with immune status after transplantation. Ten articles addressed the role of regulatory T cells in transplantation immunology. Seventeen articles were about the relation of T lymphocytes and immune tolerance after transplantation. Twenty-one articles were on the research prospects of T lymphocytes and immune tolerance after transplantation.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: T lymphocytes are important cells to regulate the immune response. Immunologic rejection or immune tolerance depended on subsets and functions of T lymphocyte in the immune system after receiving allogeneic liver transplantation. We can induce host immune tolerance through inhibition or induction of some features of T lymphocytes.


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Key words: organ transplantation, liver transplantation, graft rejection, immune tolerance, T lymphocytes

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