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Original Article

Radiation Dose as a Factor in Host Preparation for Bone Marrow Transplantation Across Different Genetic Barriers

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Pages 501-510 | Received 10 May 1991, Accepted 15 Oct 1991, Published online: 03 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

Engraftment of donor bone marrow in relation to total body irradiation (TBI) dose was studied in syngeneic (B6→B6), MHC-compatible (BALB.B→B6) and MHC-incompatible allogeneic (BALB/c→B6) murine bone marrow transplantation (BMT) models. For each BMT combination radiation dose-response curves were obtained from stable longterm bone-marrow chimerism using Gpi-1 phenotyping and this was compared with the growth of exogenous CFU-S. Syngeneic engraftment required the lowest TBI doses limited to ablation of host haemopoietic stem cells. Resistance against H-2-compatible allogeneic engraftment was evident at low radiation doses (< 5·5 Gy) but at 6 Gy and above the level of chimerism was comparable to syngeneic transplants, which indicated effective immunosuppression. Higher TBI doses were needed for engraftment as the immunological barrier was increased using fully H-2-incompatible allogeneic transplants. The high TBI dose (9·5 Gy) needed for suppression of spleen endocolonies in the CFU-S assay meant that rejection of exogenous bone marrow was evident only across the larger immunological barriers. When the fully allogeneic combination was reversed (B6→BALB/c) both CFU-S and chimerism data showed less rejection. The steep dose-response relationships show how engraftment is critically dependent on TBI dose, as well as the genetic disparity between donor and host.

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