Articles tagged "Endothelial activation"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Oxidative Stress During Organ Recovery Influences Transplant Vasculopathy Development
M. Maglione,¹ G. Riede,¹ B. Cardini,¹ D. Bernhard,² B. Messner,² K. Watschinger,³ C. Steger,⁴ G. Brandacher,⁵ J. Pratschke,¹ E. Werner,³ R. Oberhuber.¹
¹Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; ²Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Vienna Medical University, Vienna, Austria; ³Division of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; ⁴Institute of Pathology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; ⁵Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Transplant vasculopathy is still a major obstacle to long-term graft survival. Pharmacological strategies aiming at preventing it are still lacking. Herein we show that the…