Hand transplants and the mandate for tolerance
Koulmanda M, Pomahac B, Fan Z, Murphy G, Strom T. Hand transplants and the mandate for tolerance. Current Opinion In Organ Transplantation 2014, Publish Ahead of Print: &na;. PMID: 25373855, PMCID: PMC4352932, DOI: 10.1097/mot.0000000000000138.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsGraft RejectionHand TransplantationHumansImmune ToleranceImmunologic MemoryInflammationInterleukin-2ConceptsHand transplantationIL-2Hand transplantLow-dose IL-2IL-2-based therapyBalance of immunityDrug-free toleranceRegulatory T cellsUse of immunosuppressionRecent clinical trialsLife-long immunosuppressionInduction of toleranceNonhuman primate modelShort-term treatmentDrug minimizationPosttransplant periodInflammatory processClinical trialsPrimate modelT cellsPreclinical demonstrationComposite allograftsAdverse inflammationTransplantationTransplant