Induction of hemopoietic chimerism in the caprine fetus by intraperitoneal injection of fetal liver cells

Experientia. 1989 Mar 15;45(3):307-8. doi: 10.1007/BF01951819.

Abstract

Intraperitoneal injection of allogeneic liver cells from 43-day-old male fetuses into normal 60-day female goat fetuses resulted in persistent hemopoietic chimerism in surviving recipients without clinical evidence of graft-versus-host disease. Transplantation of normal fetal liver cells into preimmunocompetent goat fetuses affected with beta-D-mannosidosis may provide an alternative strategy for evaluating hemopoietic stem cell transplantation in the treatment of human lysosomal storage diseases.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation
  • Chimera*
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Female
  • Fetus / immunology*
  • Goats
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation*
  • Immune Tolerance
  • Liver / embryology*
  • Liver Transplantation
  • Male
  • alpha-Mannosidosis / therapy