In mice with syngeneic skin grafts, CMC-bound FTS delayed rejection compared with placebo controls.
In plain wordsIn mice with syngeneic skin grafts, FTS delayed rejection compared with placebo controls.
- Outcome
- IncreaseSyngeneic skin graft survival versus placebo
- Study
mousen: not reported in source
- Comparator
- placebo
- Outcome group
- Immune response · Immune and inflammation
- Studied dose
- 10 ng three times weekly · until rejectionAs given in this study (mouse).
Measurements
- Mean graft survival
- 49 days
- FTS
- Reported variation
- 3 days
- FTS
- Mean graft survival
- 29 days
- controls with placebo
- Reported variation
- 2 days
- controls with placebo
Source sentences
Administration of FTS [10 ng bound to a carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) vehicle three times weekly until rejection] significantly delayed rejection (49 +/- 3 days).
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
In the syngeneic system, control animals with and without placebo had a mean graft survival time of 29 +/- 2 and 24 +/- 2 days respectively.
Synthetic serum thymic factor (FTS) and several of its analogues have been examined for immunoregulatory properties in a murine skin graft rejection model, including a syngeneic male-to-female system and an allogeneic system.