The pathological differences of rejection in the heart allografts which are transplanted alone or with synchronous skin grafts in rats.

Abstract

The morphological patterns of rejection of the heart allografts which were combinedly transplanted with skin grafts was examined to determine whether it was different from that of the heart grafts transplanted alone. The results showed that there were distinct differences in the pathology of the rejection between the two groups because in the single heart grafts mononuclear cells concentrated in almost all layers of myocardium but in the combinedly transplanted heart grafts not only concentration of them but also severe hemorrhage and edema were observed in it, and it suggests that skin graft has effects on rejection process of heart grafts. As we used an outbred strain of rats some survived heart grafts were observed and their pathology was characteristic in the interstitial accumulation of hypertrophic mast cells, most of which were degranulating.