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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 18.
Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 1995 Jul 27;60(2):158–171. doi: 10.1097/00007890-199507000-00009

Table 4.

Location and number of L-21-6–positive cells in different tissues of recipient 30 days after small intestine, liver, and bone marrow transplantation

Tissue Donor cells after transplantation numbera / location
Small intestine Liver Bone marrow
Spleen + Red pulp, PALSc + PALS, red pulp + PALS
Thymus −/+ Distorted architecture, small medulla + Medulla + + Medulla
Lymph nodes + + + Cortical, T cell–rich + + Mixed cortical and paracortical + Paracortical, dendritic cell–rich
Skin + + + Dermal-epidermal junction −/+ Deep dermis −/+ Deep dermis
Liver NA + Portal tracts, rare sinusoids
a

Donor cells on whole-mount section.

b

(−/+) rare; (+) 5< <10; (+ +) 10< <50; (+ + +) >50.

c

PALS, periarteriolar lymphoid shealth.