title: Effect of storage in recipient's blood on the immunogenicity of tooth allografts in rabbits.
abstract: Dental allografts can immunize recipients against skin allografts because some antigens are shared between teeth and skin. The effect of storage in the recipient's blood (ten days, 4 C) on the immunogenicity of subcutaneously allotransplanted rabbit teeth was examined. Storage in blood depressed the antigenicity of teeth, as detected by prolongation of the rejection time of second-set skin grafts in comparison with teeth stored in saline solution, or fresh, nonstored teeth. Further studies are needed to elucidate the mechanism of this procedure.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation; D001790:Blood Physiological Phenomena; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006648:Histocompatibility; D008297:Male; D011817:Rabbits; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013997:Time Factors; D014070:Tooth / Q000276:immunology / Q000637:transplantation*; D014181:Transplantation Immunology; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous