Articles tagged "B cells"

2019 American Transplant Congress
EBV⁺ PTLD Cell Lines Secrete Exosomes Containing microRNAs That Alter Immune Responses
S. Syed, E. Maloney, A. Hui, O. Martinez, S. Krams
Stanford Univ School of Med, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Exosomes are nanometric (50-150nm) membrane vesicles that are released, into blood and other body fluids, by most cell types. Exosomes, which are generated from…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Circulating T Follicular Helper Proliferation And Memory B Cell Activation Correlate With Donor Specific Allo-antibody Occurrence And Antibody-mediated Rejection After Kidney Transplantation
K. Louis¹, C. Macedo¹, M. Marrari¹, B. Ramaswami¹, M. Lucas¹, B. Elinoff¹, M. Yamada¹, X. Gu¹, G. Chalasani¹, A. Zeevi¹, P. Randhawa¹, C. Lefaucheur², D. Metes¹
¹Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Inserm Unité mixte de recherche 1160, Paris, France
*Purpose: Crosstalk between T follicular helper (Tfh) cells and B cells is necessary for class-switched antibody generation. The contribution of memory Tfh and B cells…
2019 American Transplant Congress
B Cell Immunophenotypes in Transplantation
M. Cascalho¹, M. de Mattos-Barbosa², E. A. Farkash³, J. L. Platt²
¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: B cells and B cell responses have been associated with favorable outcomes of transplantation in some setting and unfavorable outcomes in others. For example,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Novel In Vitro Germinal Center Culture System Demonstrates More Aggressive B Cell to Plasma Blast Differentiation in Allosensitized Nonhuman Primates
P. Schroder, J. Yoon, R. Schmitz, Z. Fitch, J. Kwun, S. J. Knechtle
Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: The allogeneic humoral immune response is largely composed of T cell dependent antibody responses produced after B and T cells interact within the germinal…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Anti CD45RB Antibody Therapy Attenuates Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury by Inducing Regulatory B Cells
S. Lee¹, S. Park¹, J. Hwang¹, J. Ryu², T. Koo², C. Ahn², J. Yang³
¹Biomedical Research Institute, Transplantation Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Regulatory B cells (Bregs) are a new B cell subset that suppresses immune responses. Recently, both anti-CD45RB and anti-Tim-1 treatments have been found to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
TACI Polymorphisms Associated with Increased Alloimmunity and Allograft Rejection
M. Garcia de Mattos-Barbosa¹, E. A. Farkash², J. L. Platt¹, M. Cascalho¹
¹Transplant Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Transmembrane activator and CAML interactor (TACI) controls B cell differentiation. The TACI gene is highly polymorphic (>95% of all genes) and frequently variants exhibit…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Epstein Barr Virus DNA Integration in B Cell Lymphomas of Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder
M. C. McPherson, O. M. Martinez
Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplant, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Epstein Barr virus-positive (EBV+) B cell lymphomas can arise in immunosuppressed individuals, such as organ transplant recipients in the context of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Role of MHC Class II in B Cell and Regulatory T Cell Development
S. K. Germana, Z. Wang, C. A. Huang, L. Kojima, C. G. Rickert, J. F. Markmann, C. LeGuern
Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Therapies involving CD4 regulatory T cells (Tregs) are promising approaches to mitigate graft rejection and autoimmunity. Understanding of the activation mechanisms that initiate Treg…
2019 American Transplant Congress
BCMA Expression by Alloreactive B Cells Increases during De Novo Alloantibody Responses
N. Chai, G. Wu, I. Kim, A. Klein, S. Jordan
Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Med Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: BCMA(TNFRSF17) belongs to tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily. It is selectively expressed during B/plasma cell differentiation while being nearly absent on naive and memory…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Step-Wise Desensitization Using Rituximab&Bortezomib Combined with Antithymocyte Globulin for Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Candidates
H. Ohdan, K. Ide, M. Ohira, H. Tahara, Y. Tanaka
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
*Purpose: In highly HLA sensitized patients, both memory B and T cells responding to donor-specific HLA in addition to plasma cells secreting anti-HLA Abs are…