2017 American Transplant Congress
Induction of Tolerance to Renal Allografts in Non Human Primates by Concomitant Donor-Matched Vascularized Osteomyocutaneous Allotransplantation.
Introduction: We hypothesized that hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niches in bone marrow of vascularized osteomyocutaneous allografts (VOMA) will facilitate mixed chimerism (MC) and tolerance to…2017 American Transplant Congress
CD4 and CD8 T Cells: Respectively Reprogrammed and Recapitulated in the Neonate to Induce Transplant Tolerance.
Alberta Transplant Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Purpose: Non-conditioned neonatal mice develop acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) when injected with adult allogeneic spleen and bone marrow cells (allo-SC/BMC). To prevent aGVHD and induce…2017 American Transplant Congress
Functional Mystacial Pad Allograft Tolerance Induced and Maintained by Vascularized Bone Marrow Transplant.
Background: Accumulating findings indicate that vascularized bone marrow (VBM) transplantation plays a critical role to promote tolerance of vascularized composite allografts (VCA) without life-long immunosuppression.…2017 American Transplant Congress
Ethylene Carbodiimide Fixed Donor Splenocytes Combined with α-1 Antitrypsin Induce Indefinite Donor Specific Protection to Mice Cardiac Allografts.
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Peritransplant infusion of ethylene carbodiimide fixed donor splenocytes(ECDI-SPs) induces protection of islet and cardiac allografts. However, pro-inflammatory cytokine production during the peritransplantation period may negate…2017 American Transplant Congress
CTLA4-Ig in Combination with FTY720 Reduces the Frequency of Memory Alloreactive T Cells and Promotes Heart Allograft Survival in Sensitized Recipients.
Despite recent evidence of improved graft outcomes and safety, high incidence of early acute cellular rejection with belatacept has limited its use in clinical transplantation.…2017 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation Tolerance Using Outbred Mice.
Success of organ transplantation currently depends on life-time immunosuppression, resulting in severe side effects. Induction of donor specific tolerance is ideal, which actually spontaneously occurs…2017 American Transplant Congress
Dendritic Cells That Highly Express SOCS1 Induce T-Cell Hypo-Responsiveness and Prolong Islet Allograft Survival.
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
The capability of dendritic cells (DCs) to induce an immune response or immune tolerance is dependent on their status. Suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 (SOCS1)…2017 American Transplant Congress
Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibitor, 17DMAG Suppresses Acute Allograft Rejection and Prolongs Allograft Survival in Solid Organ Transplantation.
Urology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
Purpose: Heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) is a ubiquitously expressed molecular chaperone that is associated with the correct activation of client proteins. Important roles of…2017 American Transplant Congress
Does Blockade of ICOS/ICOS-L Pathway Act Synergistically with αCD40 Costimulation Pathway Blockade?
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Purpose: Inducible costimulator (ICOS) on T cells enhances basic T cell responses to foreign antigen, and increased ICOS expression is detected in association with pathogenic…2017 American Transplant Congress
MERTK Mediates Transplantation Tolerance via Inhibition of TBK1 Phosphorylation and IFN-a Production.
Introduction: The TAM (Tyro3, Axl and MERTK) receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) mediate homeostatic phagocytosis of apoptotic cells, and transmit regulatory signals that modulate immune response.…
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