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Articles tagged "Fas ligand"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    FasL-Presenting PEG Microgels Supports Sustained Graft Survival in Nonhuman Primates in the Absence of Continuous Immunosuppression

    E. S. Yolcu1, J. Lei2, M. M. Coronel3, H. Deng4, Z. Yang4, A. Zhang4, T. Chen5, K. Lee4, C. Peters4, I. Rosales4, Z. Wang4, J. Markmann4, A. Garcia3, H. Shirwan1

    1University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, MO, 2Surgery, Mass General, Boston, MA, 3Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 4Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 5Xiamen University Medical School, Xiamen, China

    *Purpose: Broad application of allogeneic islets for T1D treatment is curtailed by the use of chronic immunosuppression to control rejection. Teff cells are the major…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Immunomodulation with FasL Presenting Biomaterials Achieves Long-Term Survival of Allogeneic Islets in the Absence of Chronic Immunosuppression in a Non-Human Primate Model

    J. Lei1, H. Deng1, T. Chen1, K. Lee1, C. Peters1, Z. Yang1, K. Deng1, G. Rickert1, I. Rosales1, N. Serifis1, M. Coronel2, M. Hunckler2, E. Yolcu3, H. Shirwan3, A. García2, J. Markmann1

    1Surgery, Mass General, Boston, MA, 2School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 3School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY

    *Purpose: The full potential of islet transplantation will only be realized by the development of tolerogenic strategies that obviate the need for maintenance immunosuppressants. We…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Exosomes Released from Natural Killer Cells Activation of Immune Responses: Role in Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction

    R. Ravichandran, Y. Itabashi, W. Liu, M. Rahman, S. Bansal, R. Bremner, M. Smith, T. Mohanakumar

    Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ

    *Purpose: Recent studies demonstrated natural killer (NK) cells can induce cytotoxicity both by direct cytotoxic mechanisms and antibody (Ab) dependent cytotoxicity; however its role in…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Sirna Uptake During Ex Vivo Hypothermic And Normothermic Liver Machine Perfusion: Beginning Of A New Era Of Organ Preservation

    A. Gillooly1, C. Moore1, J. Perry1, I. Bruggenwirth2, M. Thijssen2, X. Wang1, X. E1, P. Mandrekar1, T. Kowalik1, R. Porte2, H. Leuvenink2, R. Abdi3, A. Bozorgzadeh1, P. N. Martins1

    1University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 2University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 3Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: RNA interference (RNAi) is a natural gene modulation process that was recently approved for clinical use and has great potential for treatment of many…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Porcine Islets Engineered with SA-FasL Protein Induces Robust Tolerance in Mice through CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ Treg Cells.

    K. Woodward,1 H. Zhao,1 H. Shirwan,1 F. Wang,1 M. Graham,2 B. Hering,2 E. Yolcu.1

    1Institute for Cellular Therapeutics and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; 2Schulze Diabetes Institute and Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

    Introduction: We have shown that porcine islets engineered to transiently display SA-FasL protein on their surface establish tolerance in mice following transplantation under the kidney…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Porcine Islets Engineered to Display SA-FasL Protein on Their Surface Induce Tolerance in Mice Following Transplantation into the Liver or Under the Kidney Capsule.

    H. Zhao,1 K. Woodward,1 H. Shirwan,1 M. Graham,2 B. Hering,2 E. Yolcu.1

    1Institute for Cellular Therapeutics and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; 2Schulze Diabetes Institute and Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

    Introduction: We have recently demonstrated that allogeneic islets engineered to transiently display on their surface a novel form of FasL protein chimeric with streptavidin (SA-FasL)…

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