Organ donors are sources of physiologically healthy organs and tissues for life-saving
transplantation, and have been recently used for human immunology studies which are
typically confined to the sampling of peripheral blood. Donors comprise a diverse population
with different causes of death and clinical outcomes during hospitalization, and the effects of
such variations on immune parameters in blood and tissues are not known. We present here
a coordinate analysis of innate and adaptive immune components in blood, lymphoid (bone …