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2016 American Transplant Congress
Mechanisms of Cellular Repopulation within Healthy or Intrinsically Scarred Kidney Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds.
J. Uzarski,¹ C. Deaton,⁵ H. Ward,² A. Wandinger-Ness,³ W. Miller,⁴ J. Wertheim.¹
¹Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; ²Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico HSC, Albuquerque, NM; ³Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico HSC, Albuquerque, NM; ⁴Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; ⁵Department of Biology, University of Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Background: While the number of wait-listed patients suffering from kidney failure continues to rise, the number of kidney transplants performed each year has remained stagnant.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The IFN-Gamma-Inducible Protein (IP-10/CXCL10) Is a Promising Target to Improve Endocrine Function Following Islet Transplantation.
G. Yoshimatsu,¹ M. Kanak,² P. Balaji S,¹ C. Chang,³ C. Darden,³ M. Takita,¹ M. Lawrence,¹ B. Naziruddin.⁴
¹Islet Cell Laboratory, Baylor Research Institute, Dallas, TX; ²Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, VCU Medical Center, Richmond, VA; ³Transplant Services, Baylor Simmons Transplant Institute, Dallas, TX.
A significant mass of transplanted islets is lost very early due to an inflammatory reaction. CXCL10 is a chemokine that is highly expressed in islets…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Human Epineural Allograft Conduits Supported with Mesenchymal Stem Cells Enhance Peripheral Nerve Regeneration: A Preliminary Report.
M. Siemionow, M. Strojny, W. Malewski, J. Cwykiel, M. Cyran.
Department of Orthopaedics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
PURPOSE: Due to the limitations of current surgical methods of long nerve defect repair, new therapeutic approaches are needed to enhance nerve regeneration. Nerve allografts…
2016 American Transplant Congress
NFκB Inhibitor Withaferin A Blocks IBMIR In Vitro: miRNA 375 Analysis.
M. Kanak,¹ M. Takita,² G. Yoshimatsu,² M. Lawrence,² M. Levy,¹ B. Naziruddin.³
¹Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; ²Islet Tranpsplant Lab, Baylor Research Institute, Dallas, TX; ³Simmons Transplant Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Background: Instant Blood Mediated Inflammatory Reaction (IBMIR) has been shown to severely affect islet engraftment. We previously reported that Withaferin A (WA) can protect islets…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Microfluidic Device for Purification of Pancreatic Islet Preparations.
W. Varhue,¹ L. Langman,² D. Bowers,³ S. Peirce-Cottler,³ N. Swami,¹ K. Brayman.²
¹Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; ²Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; ³Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Purpose: Demonstrate that novel continuous flow microfluidic designs can be utilized to remove contaminating acinar tissue and sort the purified islets, based on size and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Citrate-Based Thermoresponsive Hydrogel as a Versatile Platform for Extrahepatic Islet Transplantation.
Y. Zhu,¹ X. Zhang,² A. Guillermo,¹ X. Luo.²
¹McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Introduction: Islets transplantation in the liver often results in limited islets survival presumably due to abnormal blood flow dynamics and acute inflammatory response. The objective…
2016 American Transplant Congress
IL-17A Preactivated Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC-17) Are Enriched for Genes Involved in T Cell Chemotaxis to Mediate Superior Immunosuppression.
K. Sivanathan,^1,2,3 D. Rojas-Canales,^1,2 S. Gronthos,⁴ S. Grey,⁵ P. Coates.^1,2,3
¹School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; ²Centre for Clinical and Experimental Transplantation, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; ³Centre for Stem Cell Research and Robinson Institute, School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; ⁴Mesenchymal Stem Cell Laboratory, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; ⁵Transplant Immunology Group, Garvin Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Human bone marrow derived MSC-17 are superior T cell immunomodulators for allotransplantation. Untreated-MSC (UT-MSC) or 5 days IFNγ (MSCγ) or IL-17A (MSC-17) treated MSC were…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Novel, Non-Viral mRNA Delivery System for Targeted Protein Translation in Human Islets.
J. Oberholzer,^1,2 D. Gutierrez,^1,2 E. Marchese,¹ M. Nourmohammadzadeh,^1,2 Y. Wang.^1,2
¹Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; ²Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Background: We propose using an innovative technology that utilizes gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as a non-viral method of delivery. Our laboratory was one of the first…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Non-Hematopoietic Erythropoietin Analogue, ARA 290, Prolonged Allogeneic Pancreatic Islet Graft Survival in a Mouse Model.
M. Watanabe,¹ M. Yao,¹ D. Andersson,¹ M. Brines,² T. Lundgren,¹ M. Kumagai-Braesch.¹
¹Division of Transplantation Surgery, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ²Araim Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY.
Purpose. Erythropoietin exerts anti-inflammatory, anti-apoptotic and cyto-protective effects in addition to its hematopoietic property. We have recently shown that ARA 290, a non-hematopoietic erythropoietin analogue,…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Decellularized Rat Liver Scaffolds Support Multilineage Xenogenic and Heterogenic Cell Growth.
W. Hassanein, U. Dhru, J. Woodall, M. Uluer, A. Cimeno, D. Parsell, C. Rivera, S. Klepfer, C. Drachenberg, R. Barth, J. LaMattina.
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Background:Recent years have seen a proliferation of methods leading to successful organ decellularization. Nonetheless, the ability to reproducibly generate a robust recellularized construct remains challenging.…