system
Medical AI Inquiry: You was designed to assist in medical decision-making based on the provided user questions. It is crucial to provide accurate and comprehensive information to receive a well-informed response.  Labels: BACKGROUND, METHODS, RESULTS. Meshes: Abatacept, Administration, Oral, Adoptive Transfer, Animals, Antigens, CD, Antigens, Differentiation, B7-1 Antigen, CTLA-4 Antigen, Graft Survival, Heart Transplantation, Immunoconjugates, Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments, Immunosuppression, Isoantigens, Lymphocyte Transfusion, Lymphocytes, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Inbred CBA, Spleen, Time Factors.
user
Is b7/CTLA4 pathway essential for generating regulatory cells after intratracheal delivery of alloantigen in mice? Context: The mechanism of hyporesponsiveness induced by intratracheal (IT) delivery of alloantigen was examined and its effect on cardiac graft survival was assessed in studies in mice. In CBA (H2 ) mice, donor splenocytes were given by IT delivery 7 days before transplantation of a C57BL/10 (H2 ) heart. To determine whether regulatory cells were involved in hyporesponsiveness, splenocytes from mice given IT delivery of alloantigen and antibodies for B7-1, B7-2, or CTLA4 were adoptively transferred to naïve secondary recipients 7 days after delivery; those recipients underwent heart transplantation the same day. Effects on cell proliferation and cytokine production of splenocytes from mice given IT delivery of alloantigen were examined in mixed leukocyte cultures (MLC). Cardiac graft survival was significantly prolonged in mice given IT delivery of alloantigen (median survival time [MST], 81 days); those given syngeneic splenocytes rejected grafts acutely (MST, 7 days; P<0.05). Adoptive transfer of splenocytes also significantly prolonged survival of cardiac grafts in secondary recipients (MST, 62 days). When B7-1, B7-2, or CTLA4 antibody was combined with IT delivery of alloantigen in the first recipient, all grafts were rejected within 14 days in second recipients after adoptive transfer. In mixed leukocyte cultures, splenocytes from these mice did not respond to alloantigen and production of interleukin-4 and interleukin-10 was increased.
assistant
Donor splenocytes delivered IT induced hyporesponsiveness and regulatory cells in our animal model, and such induction was dependent on B7-1, B7-2, and CTLA4 signals. Final Decision: yes