Articles tagged "B cells"

2022 American Transplant Congress
The Roles of Intrarenal B Cells in Regulating Antibody Mediated Rejection After Kidney Transplantation
H. Zhang¹, C. Cavazzoni¹, E. Bechu¹, B. Hanson¹, M. A. Podestà¹, D. Kreisel², A. Alessandrini³, P. Sage¹
¹Transplantation Research Center, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Department of Surgery, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, ³Center for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Alloimmune rejection after kidney transplantation is associated with substantial infiltration of immune cells such as T and B cells in transplanted grafts. However, the…
2022 American Transplant Congress
High Dimensional Analysis of IL-10-Producing Human B Cells and Their Characterization in Operationally Tolerant Transplant Recipients
M. C. Glass, D. Glass, J. Oliveria, B. Mbiribindi, C. Esquivel, S. M. Krams, S. C. Bendall, O. M. Martinez
Stanford University Sch of Med, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Regulatory B cells (Breg) participate in control of alloimmune responses in murine models of graft tolerance and are associated with improved outcomes in clinical…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Faster B Cell Rebound is Observed Following Xenotransplantation Compared to Allotransplantation in a Highly Sensitized Nonhuman Primate Kidney Transplantation Model
I. DeLaura, M. Manook, D. Olaso, J. Yoon, R. Baldi, S. Knechtle, J. Kwun
Surgery, Duke Transplant Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Xenotransplantation outcomes have been greatly improved due to the advent of genetically engineered pigs and agents targeting the CD40-CD40L signaling pathway. However, studies have…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Marginal Zone B Cells Support T Cell Reconstitution Following ATG Lymphoablation in Heart Allograft Recipients.
Y. Yamamoto, R. Fan, M. Nicosia, V. Gorbacheva, R. Fairchild, A. Valujskikh
Inflammation and Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Lymphoablation with anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) is a common therapy in solid organ transplantation. However homeostatic proliferation of pre-existing memory T cells undermines the graft-prolonging…
2022 American Transplant Congress
TNFRSF13B Genotype Determines the Properties of Donor-Specific B Cells
M. Cascalho¹, M. Garcia de Mattos Barbosa¹, T. Pasieka¹, E. Farkash², R. Sung³, M. Doshi⁴, J. Platt⁴
¹Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: The TNFRSF13B gene is among the 5% most polymorphic genes in humans. The phenotypes of the most frequent TNFRSF13B variants in humans and mice…
2022 American Transplant Congress
How Does Anti-CD38 Antibody Treatment (Daratumumab) Impact Immunological Assessment in Solid Organ Transplantation?
S. Ho¹, K. Putnam², C. Peiter², W. Herczyk², J. Gerlach³, E. Campagnaro⁴, Y. Lu⁴, K. Woodside⁴, M. Cusick⁴
¹Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Itasca, IL, ²Gift of Life Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, ⁴University of Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: We report the first case of Dara interference of routine pre-transplant (Tx) crossmatch (XM) repeatedly causing aberrant false positives which inadvertently delayed Tx for…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Complement 5 Regulation Ameliorates Antibody-Mediated Rejection After Liver Transplantation in Rats
T. Tajima¹, K. Hata¹, J. Kusakabe¹, H. Miyauchi¹, X. Zhao¹, S. Kageyama¹, T. Okamoto¹, Y. Wang², E. Hatano¹
¹Dept. of HBP Surgery & Transplantation, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, ²Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is a refractory rejection after donor-specific antibody (DSA)-positive or blood-type incompatible organ transplantation. Since AMR significantly deteriorates transplant outcomes, there is…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Influence of Regulatory B Cells on B Cells
Q. Fu¹, K. M. Lee², K. Deng², D. Agarwal¹, R. Matheson³, T. Press¹, J. Lei⁴, H. Yang⁵, C. LeGuern², S. Deng⁵, J. F. Markmann²
¹Center for Transplant Science, MGH, Boston, MA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Transplantation Surgery Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Surgery, Mass General, Boston, MA, ⁵Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Sciences and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
*Purpose: Our previous study showed that Bregs-TLR, one type of previously studied Breg expanded in vitro, are capable of suppressing naïve B cell proliferation in…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Peripheral Blood Immune Cell Profiles of Corneal Transplant with and without Acute Rejection
J. Hjortdal¹, M. Griffin², C. C. Murphy³, S. Brouard⁴, N. Degauque⁴
¹Department of Ophthalmology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ²National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland, ³Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ⁴Université de Nantes, CHU Nantes, Inserm, Centre de Recherche en Transplantation et Immunologie, UMR 1064, ITUN, Nantes, France
*Purpose: Acute rejection (AR) of allogeneic corneal transplantation (CT) has a profound effect on subsequent graft survival, indicating that immunological damage is often not fully…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Dynamic Changes in Titer and Specificity Autoantibodies in Chronic Bm12 to B/6 Kidney Rejection
I. Sayin¹, D. Yin¹, D. Ghosh², M. Clark², A. Chong¹
¹Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Loss of autoreactive B cell tolerance and production of non-HLA autoantibodies have been observed in patients undergoing chronic rejection, however, how autoreactive B cells…