Table 2 Survival times of the natural survival recipients.

From: Donor liver natural killer cells ameliorate liver allograft rejection via inducing apoptosis of alloreactive CD8+ T cells generating CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells

Subgroup

n

treatment

recipients’ survival time (day)

MST (day)

A

8

Without depletion of donor liver leukocytes and dtlNKs transfusion

100 × 8

100

B

12

Depletion of donor liver leukocytes via WBI before transplantation

14 × 3,15,18 × 2,38,56,72 × 2,100 × 2

28a

C

12

Depletion of donor liver leukocytes plus dtlNKs transfusion after LTx.

28,32,40,47,56,60,

100 × 6

60b

  1. MST, median survival time; WBI, whole-body gamma-irradiation; dtlNKs, purified donor type liver NK cells; LTx, allogeneic liver transplantation. ap<0.05 Compared to subgroup A and C; bp<0.05 Compared to subgroup A.
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