2013 American Transplant Congress
Protective Effect of Nrf2-keap1 Pathway on Islet Cells Using Islet Isolation Model
Background: Nuclear factor erythroid-derived 2-related factor (Nrf2) is a transcription factor that regulates basal activity and coordinated induction of numerous genes encoding antioxidant and phase…2013 American Transplant Congress
B Cells from Operational Tolerant Produce More IL10, Display a Defect of Late Differentiation and Harbor a Higher Susceptibility to Cell Death Apoptosis
Objectives: Patients operationally tolerant to a kidney graft display a whole blood transcriptional B-cell signature. As these patients only rarely develop an allo-immune response, we…2013 American Transplant Congress
Effectiveness in Kidney Donation of Uncontrolled Donation after Cardiac Death (UDCD) Program with Out-of-Hospital Deceased People
Thousands of people suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest worldwide every year, death being declared in situ after 30min. of unsuccessful advanced CPR maneuvers. Some cases could…2013 American Transplant Congress
West Nile Virus (WNV) Epidemic during 2012 in the Western United States: High Number of IgM Anti-WNV Reactives but No WNV RNA+ Organ Donors
WNV is a neurotropic flavivirus. Humans are accidental, dead-end hosts for WNV. Symptoms usually develop 2-15 days after exposure and viremia begins prior to symptoms…2013 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of Graft Loss in Hand Transplant Recipients in the Western World – Cause for Concern?
Surgery, Duke University, Durham; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Introduction: In the 14 years since the first successful hand transplant, the procedure has become established and performed around the world. This is an analysis…2013 American Transplant Congress
Recipient’s Conventional Dendritic Cells (DC) Are the Mediators of the Beneficial Effects of Immunosuppressive DC-Based Therapies in Cardiac Transplantation
During the past 15 years, therapies based on administration of donor- or recipient-derived immunosuppressive (IS) / tolerogenic dendritic cells (DC), alone or in combination with…2013 American Transplant Congress
Differing Responsiveness of EQ-5D Preference Valuations to Solid Organ Transplantation: Implications for Cost-Utility Analyses
Introduction: EuroQoL (EQ-5D) health-related quality of life surveys can be reported as health status scores and preference valuation (PV) utilities. Our aim was to evaluate…2013 American Transplant Congress
Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist Delays Progression of Liver Fibrosis
Introduction: Liver fibrosis represents a wound healing response to chronic insults affecting both candidates for liver transplantation and transplanted patients. Interleukin-1Β (IL1Β) has been proposed…2013 American Transplant Congress
Have Livers? Will Travel! Multiple Listings To Expedite Liver Transplantation
Surgery, MGH, Boston, MA; Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Background Geographic disparity in access to liver transplantation (LT) exists. This study compared demographics, waitlist, and transplant dynamics of multi-listed (ML) versus singly listed (SL)…2013 American Transplant Congress
Rabbit ATGs Modulate the Leukocyte-Endothelium Interactions in Both Naïve and Adult Endothelial Cells
IntroductionPolyclonal antithymocyte globulins (ATGs) are immunosuppressive drugs widely used in induction of immunosuppression and treatment of acute rejection after solid organ transplantation. The aim of…
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