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Type of cell
In tissue and
organ transplantation , the passenger leukocyte theory is the proposition that
leucocytes within a transplanted
allograft sensitize the recipient's alloreactive
T-lymphocytes , causing transplant rejection.
[1]
The concept was first proposed by
George Davis Snell
[2] and the term coined in 1968 when Elkins and Guttmann showed that
leukocytes present in a donor graft initiate an immune response in the recipient of a transplant.
[3]
See also
References
Further reading
Audet, Maxime; Panaro, Fabrizio; Piardi, Tullio; Huang, Ping; Cag, Murat; Cinqualbre, Jacques; Wolf, Philippe (2008).
"Passenger Lymphocyte Syndrome and Liver Transplantation" . Clinical and Developmental Immunology . 2008 : 715769.
doi :
10.1155/2008/715769 .
PMC
2652582 .
PMID
19277202 .
Demetris, AJ; Murase, N; Rao, AS; Fung, JJ; Starzl, TE (1995).
"The dichotomous functions of passenger leukocytes in solid-organ transplantation" . Advances in Nephrology from the Necker Hospital . 24 : 341–54.
PMC
2987699 .
PMID
7572418 .