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Research on Macrolides Reported by Investigators at Harvard University

Published in Blood Weekly, May 3rd, 2012

2012 MAY 3 -- In this recent study, researchers in Boston, Massachusetts conducted a study "To tilt the immunologic balance toward tolerance and away from rejection, non-human primate recipients of cardiac allografts were treated with interleukin (IL)-2/Fc, mutant (m) antagonist type mIL-15/Fc, and sirolimus. Heterotopic heart transplants were performed on 8 fully mismatched cynomolgus macaques."

"An untreated control recipient rejected its graft by post-operative Day 6. The remaining 7 animals received oral or intramuscular immunosuppression with sirolimus. A recipient treated with sirolimus alone rejected at the end of 28 days of immunosuppression. The...

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