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. 1973 Feb 28;137(3):776–798. doi: 10.1084/jem.137.3.776

A STUDY OF ALLOGRAFT KIDNEY REJECTION OCCURRING SIMULTANEOUSLY IN WHOLE ORGAN AND EAR CHAMBER GRAFTS IN THE RABBIT

J B Hobbs 1, W J Cliff 1
PMCID: PMC2139372  PMID: 4570018

Abstract

When portions of adult renal tissue are allografted into the rabbit ear chamber, they usually survive for periods of up to several months (6). When a kidney from the same donor is grafted as a whole organ, the ear chamber grafts then reject with the whole organ in 7 days. During that time serial needle biopsies of the whole organ are compared with the in vivo appearance of the ear chamber grafts. This establishes that the changes occurring in the ear chamber grafts are monitoring the rejection process proceeding in the whole organ grafts. Dramatic vascular changes herald the earliest stages of unmodified rejection. A highly characteristic form of individual discrete platelet adhesion to both endothelium and adherent leukocytes is observed which is associated with the release reaction. At times as many as 20 such discrete platelets are clearly visible in profile in one high-power field. This demonstrates in vivo a mechanism whereby vascular and parenchymal damage may be produced by platelet contents, without previous aggregation or thrombus formation being necessary.

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