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Ann Thorac Surg 1993;56:237-241
© 1993 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Endothelial cell replication in an in vivo model of aortic allografts

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, and Department of Pathology, The University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA

^_* Address reprint requests to Dr Lupinetti, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Hospital and Medical Center, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105.

Previous studies of aortic valve allograft viability have used in vitro assessments that may not reflect in vivo properties. This study evaluated in vivo endothelial cell replication in experimental valved aortic grafts and examined the consequences of histoincompatibility and cryopreservation. Valved aortic conduits were heterotopically transplanted into syngeneic or allogeneic rats. Tritiated thymidine was administered to graft recipients and control rats. After 72 hours, monolayers from the native aortas and the aortic portion of the grafts were prepared for autoradiography, with six or more silver grains per nucleus considered evidence of replication. Percentages of replicating cells in native aortas ranged from 0.3% to 2.3% (p = not significant). Percentages of replicating cells in the fresh isografts (12.4%) and allografts (12.2%) were not significantly different from each other, although each was significantly greater than the percentage in its native aorta (p < 0.04). Cryopreserved allografts and isografts displayed few endothelial cells, none of which was replicating. Immunologic differences do not affect endothelial cell replication in this early period after fresh graft transplantation. Cryopreservation, however, results in the absence of replicating endothelium.

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