2015 American Transplant Congress
Measuring Affinity of Polyclonal HLA-Specific Antibodies in Highly Sensitised Cases Can Serve as an Additional Biomarker to Guide Direct Transplantation
Significant numbers of patients on transplant waiting lists in the UK are sensitised (43%). Direct transplantation across these HLA-specific antibodies using risk stratification strategies are…2015 American Transplant Congress
Improving the Predictive Value of the Virtual Crossmatch: Is the C1Q Assay Needed?
The criteria for reporting unacceptable HLA antigens of renal transplant candidates differ greatly between transplant centers. In the attempt to refine these criteria, the experience…2015 American Transplant Congress
Structural and Functional Basis for Non-HLA Antibody Mediated AT1R Activation
Nephrology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany.
Angiotensin II type receptor (AT1R), a heptahelical protein signals stimuli upon binding of natural peptide ligand angiotensin II (Ang II) and the pathogenic non-HLA IgG…2015 American Transplant Congress
Highly Accurate High-Resolution HLA Imputation Using Dense Genotyping Data
HLA similarity between donors (D) and recipients (R) of solid organ transplantation (SOT) plays a central role in determining the risk of rejection or graft-versus-host…2015 American Transplant Congress
Are DQA Antibodies Real?
Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Antibodies specific for HLA-DQ antigens appear to be increasing in frequency in the post-transplant period and are difficult to reduce effectively with desensitization protocols using…2015 American Transplant Congress
Differences in Reactivity of HLA-Specific Antibodies May Be Explained By Differences in Their Affinities for Selected Epitopes on HLA Proteins
Affinity of IgG immunoglobulins for antigen varies and matures within the evolution of immune responses. Affinity is likely to be different for different epitope-antibody interactions…2015 American Transplant Congress
HLA-C, KIR Genotypes and KIR Genotype/HLA –C Ligand Combination in Prediction of Early Acute Rejection After Liver Transplantation
Introduction; Interaction of killer immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) and human leukocyte antigen class-I (HLA-I) regulates NK cytotoxicity and function. NK regulation influences on NK/T cell alloreactivity…2015 American Transplant Congress
Proteomic Study Identified a Distinct Panel of Protein Expression in the ATP-Competitive MTOR Kinase Inhibitor Conditioned Dendritic Cells Compared to Rapamycin
Purpose: Dendritic cells (DCs) are key players in both innate and adaptive immunity, as well as in immune tolerance. The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)…2015 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal Multi-Omic Profiling of Genes and Pathways Underlying Cardiac Allograft Rejection
Our ability to treat cardiac allograft rejection in both acute and chronic states is typically limited by poor existing biomarkers to predict the occurrence of…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Design and Implementation of a Genome-Wide Genotyping Array Tailored for Transplantation
Over 570,000 solid organ transplants have been performed in the United States since 1988. Despite significant improvements in transplant outcomes, chronic organ rejection affects up…
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