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VIP Generates Human Transplant-Tolerant Regulatory T-Cells

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The takeaway

VIP induced alloantigen-specific human regulatory T-cells that could prevent transplant rejection, advancing neuropeptide-based tolerance induction for organ transplantation.

Key finding

VIP induced alloantigen-specific human regulatory T-cells that could prevent transplant rejection, advancing neuropeptide-based tolerance induction fo

What the researchers found

VIP induced alloantigen-specific human regulatory T-cells that could prevent transplant rejection, advancing neuropeptide-based tolerance induction for organ transplantation.

Why it matters

Relevant for peptide research.

How the study worked

research study.

What this study cannot tell us

See abstract.

How to read the evidence

emerging evidence.

When this study was published

Published in 2009.

The bigger picture

Advances peptide research.

Questions still open

  • Further research needed.

Common questions

What was studied?
VIP Generates Human Transplant-Tolerant Regulatory T-Cells
What was found?
VIP induced alloantigen-specific human regulatory T-cells that could prevent transplant rejection, advancing neuropeptide-based tolerance induction for organ transplantation.

Read the original research

Induction of alloantigen-specific human T regulatory cells by vasoactive intestinal peptide.

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 183(7), 4346-59

Citation

Pozo, David; Anderson, Per; Gonzalez-Rey, Elena. (2009). Induction of alloantigen-specific human T regulatory cells by vasoactive intestinal peptide.. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 183(7), 4346-59. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.0900400