Abstract:Summary.A pretreatment of 150 ~Ci 3H-thymidine was used on 25 immunological identical rats (donors). In 25 recipients the infrarenal aorta had been replaced by a vascular prosthesis at different intervals beforehand. Arteriovenous cross-transfusion was installed in pairs of donor and recipient animals mixing the blood volumes of both. Labelled monocytes were found in the prosthetic wall as well as in the anastomotic area and as lining cells at the inner surface of the graft. These data indicate the hematogenic… Show more
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