2017 American Transplant Congress
Circulating Inflammatory Factors in Deceased Organ Donors Result in Innate Immune Activation.
Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC
Background: Superior outcomes of living-donor compared to deceased-donor transplants may be related to increased graft immunogenicity at the time of transplant. Donor brain death results…2017 American Transplant Congress
Rapamycin Directly Alters Human Endothelial Cell Alloimmunogenicity.
The mTOR inhibitor rapamycin (Rapa) is known to suppress T cell function. However, many of its in vivo effects, particularly its synergistic effects with costimulation…2017 American Transplant Congress
Extra-Renal Cardiac Injury Is Associated with Upregulation of NOD2 and Nlrp3 in the Heart After Renal IRI.
Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Background: Recent studies show renal ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) is associated with systemic release of danger associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). DMAPs induce significant extra-renal organ…2017 American Transplant Congress
Binding of Antigens by Its Specific Antibodies Results in Exosome Formation Leading to Rejection of Syngeneic Murine Cardiac Grafts.
Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix
Background: Antibody binding to its antigen can activate complement cascades leading to cell death. In addition, it can activate intracellular signals leading to rejection of…2017 American Transplant Congress
Extracellular Mitochondria Cause B7 Costimulation Blockade Resistant Allograft Rejection in Mice.
1Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC; 2Immunology, Duke University, Durham, NC
Introduction: Mitochondria released in the setting of tissue injury and cell death are a source of damage-associated molecular patterns that activate innate immune responses. We…2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Belatacept Conversion on Kidney Transplant Function, Histology and Gene Expression.
Background: Belatacept (bela) might be an alternative to Calcineurin Inhibitors (CNI) in order to avoid presumed nephrotoxicity. In this study we assessed the impact of…2017 American Transplant Congress
Liver Mesenchymal Stem Cells Inhibit T Cell Alloresponses.
Clinical and histologic evidence suggest that the liver allograft induces alloimmune hyporesponsiveness in the recipient. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are multipotent non-hematopoietic stromal cells with…2017 American Transplant Congress
Human Islet-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Stimulate CD14+ Monocytes Resulting in Proinflammatory Cytokine Production.
Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
Introduction: The cellular events involved in the generation of an auto and allo-reactive immune response in recipients of islet transplantation are not well understood. In…2017 American Transplant Congress
Identification of NKG2D as Senescence Marker in Zero-Hour Kidney Biopsies Is Indicative for Clinical Outcome.
The definition of biological donor organ age rather than chronological age seems an obvious factor for the establishment of valid pre-transplant risk assessment. We therefore…2017 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Microsurgical Penis Transplant Model to Study Distinct Immunologic Features of Urogenital Tissues.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Background: Penis transplantation has been successfully employed in the recent past and represents an exciting avenue for restoration of male urogenitalia and function by using…
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