The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 108, 131-138,
Copyright, 1958, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
HOST-HOMOGRAFT TISSUE INTERACTIONS FOLLOWING EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS IN RABBITS
Richard H. Andresen M.D.1,
Clarence W. Monroe M.D.1,
George M. Hass M.D.1, and
Dorothy A. Madden 1
1 From the Rush Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Surgical Research, Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago
Under ordinary conditions musculofascial cross-grafts made between pairs of rabbits of the same strain and species elicited classical host-homograft tissue interactions. When the cross-grafting was done 7 to 10 days after exchange transfusions leading to introduction of about 40 per cent of foreign blood, the classical host-homograft reaction failed to develop. In its stead there was an harmonious interaction characterized by abundant vascularization of each graft, with minimal stromal replacement and without a trace of inflammation. This reaction resembled a common type previously described in cross-grafts made between postparabiotic twins but lacked some conspicuous features of the reaction of an animal to grafts of its own tissues.
Submitted on February 14, 1958