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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transpl Int. 2019 Oct 29;33(2):113–127. doi: 10.1111/tri.13504

Table 3.

Promotion of indefinite organ allograft survival in rodents by adoptive transfer of tolDC

DC Species DC treatment Additional host treatment Route of injection (day, d) MST Ref
Donor-derived tolDC
 MoDC Rat GM-CSF TLI; ATG iv (d14/15) >160d [136]
 BMDC Mouse GM-CSF + IL-4 or TGFβ Anti-CD40L mAb iv (d −7) >100d (40%) [137]
 BMDC Mouse Low GM-CSF None iv (d −7) >100d [77]
 BMDC Mouse BM-CSF + IL-4 + NFκβ ODN + rAd CTLA4Ig None iv (d −7) >100d (40%) [90]
 BMDC Rat Low GM-CSF + IL-4 ALS iv (d −7) >200d§ (50%) [138]
 BMDC Mouse Low GM-CSF Anti-CD54 mAb + CTLA4Ig iv (d −7) 100d [139]
 BMDC Rat (kidney) GM-CSF + IL-4 + dexamethasone CTLA4Ig (x1) + cyclosporine iv (d −10) >100d [140]
 BMDC Rat (liver) GM-CSF + IL-4 host Tregs iv (d −7) (both tolDC and Treg) 22d (tolDC); 30d (Treg); 42d (tolDC + Treg) vs. 8d (control) [141]
 Spleen DC Mouse (skin) Flt3L Cyclophosphamide + T cell-depleted donor BM cells iv (d 0) >100d [142]
 BMDC Mouse (skin) Flt3L CTLA4Ig + anti-CD40L; anti-NK1.1Ab iv (d −10) 51d (tolDC) vs. 15d (conrol) [91]
Recipient-derived tolDC
 BMDC Rat GM-CSF + IL-4 + donor MHC I peptide (RT1.Au) ALS it (d −7) >150d [143]
 BMDC Rat GM-CSF + IL-4 + donor MHC I peptide (RT1.Au) ALS iv (d −7) >200d [82]
 BMDC Mouse GM-CSF + IL-4 + RAPA + donor cell lysate None iv (X3) (d −10, −3, 0) >100d [61]
 BMDC Rat GM-CSF + IL-4 LF 15–0195* iv >100d [83]
 BMDC Mouse GM-CSF + IL-4 NFκβ ODN + donor-derived lysate iv >100d (33%) [144]
 BMDC Rat Low GM-CSF + IL-4 None iv >100d (20%) [84]

Heart allografts unless otherwise specified;

*

Deoxyspergaulin derivative;

ALS: anti-lymphocyte serum; ATG: anti-thymocyte globulin; BMDC: bone marrow-derived dendritic cells; Flt3L: fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 ligand; i.t: intra-thymic; iv: intravenous; MoDC: monocyte-derived DC; MST: mean survival time; ODN: oligodeoxyribonucleotides; rAd: recombinant adenovirus; RAPA: rapamycin; TLI: total lymphoid irradiation; Tregs: regulatory T cells

For more exhaustive review of the influence of adoptively-transferred tolDC an organ allograft survival in rodents, see references [24, 69, 70, 94, 145, 146].