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Articles tagged "Immunosuppression"

  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Profiling Immunologic Risk for Acute Rejection in Liver Transplantation: Recipient Age Is a Robust Risk Factor.

    M. Kueht, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss, A. Rana.

    Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Balyor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

    Profiling the immunologic risk for acute rejection in liver transplantation (OLT) may allow for selection immunosuppression (IS) target ranges appropriate to risk levels, all with…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Resveratrol Effectively Suppress Th17 Associated Allo-Immune Responses by the Modulation of AMPK/mTOR Pathway.

    B. Chung, K. Doh, J.-W. Min, K. Kim, B.-M. Kim, M.-L. Cho, C. Yang.

    Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

    The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of resveratrol on Th17 allo-immune responses under tacrolimus (Tac)-based immune suppression. First, we investigated the…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Allograft Dysfunction and Early Low Grade Proteinuria on Survival in Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients.

    V. López, M. Cabello, P. Ruiz, C. Jironda, D. Burgos, M. González-Molina, D. Hernández.

    Nephrology, Hospital Regional de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.

    Introduction. Recent studies have demonstrated a relationship between low-grade proteinuria and worse graft survival, but this has not been fully studied in expanded criteria donor…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Stratification of Kidney Transplant Recipients into Those with Low and High Alloreactive T-Cells May Allow Safe Conversion to mTOR-Inhibitor-Based Immunosuppression.

    T. Schachtner,1,2 M. Stein,2 P. Reinke.1,2

    1Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care, Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany; 2Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany.

    ZEUS and Herakles study randomized kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) to either continue cyclosporine or convert to everolimus posttransplantation with favorable long-term outcomes in the conversion…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Prednisone Wean After Dual Heart and Kidney Transplantation: Is There a Risk?

    D. Chang, J. Patel, M. Kittleson, T. Aintablian, L. Czer, D. Ramzy, J. Kobashigawa.

    Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA.

    Background: Corticosteroids are the cornerstone of immunosuppressive therapy post transplant (Tx)but there are deleterious effects of long-term use. A protocol of corticosteroid weaning starting 6-12…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Prospective Randomized Controlled Study Evaluating the Relationship Between Electronic Adherence Data and Tacrolimus Concentration Data.

    B. Kane,1 M. Lockwood,1 L. Potter,1 L. Lourenco,1 A. Bodzin,1 D. Covington,2 K. Mayer,3 J. Millis.1

    1University of Chicago Transplant Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2Clinical Research, Innovation Clinical Research, LLC, Tucson, AZ; 3R&D, SIMpill, LLC, Madison, WI.

    Purpose: The SIMpill® Medication Adherence System (MAS) is being evaluated in transplant recipients in a prospective 3-year study. The MAS captures patient medication adherence data…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Calcineurin Inhibitor (CNI) Nephrotoxicity Is Mediated by Defective Amp-Activated Protein Kinase (AMPK) Activation.

    A. Zmijewska, J. Chen, J. Zmijewski, R. Mannon.

    Medicine, UAB, Birmingham, AL.

    Background: CNIs are potent immunosuppressant therapies, but associated with nephrotoxicity manifested by interstitial fibrosis and progressive graft dysfunction. AMPK is a major sensor and regulator…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Sublingual Tacrolimus in Liver Transplantation: A Valid Option?

    M. Moreno Gonzales,1 L. Myhre,2 T. Taner.1

    1Division of Transplantation Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 2Department of Pharmacy, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

    Introduction. Oral tacrolimus (Tac) is currently the pilar of maintenance immunosuppression following solid organ transplantation and the most common route of drug delivery. Recent studies…
  • 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)…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Designing a Novel Highly Selective Immunoproteasome Inhibitor That Promotes Longterm Heart Allograft Acceptance While Inducing Immune Cell Exhaustion, Treg Induction and Memory Cell Suppression.

    E. Sula Karreci,1 A. Mihali,1 M. Uehara,1 A. Kurdi,1 L. Riella,1 R. Abdi,1 H. Fan,2 P. Singh,2 C. Nathan,2 G. Lin,2 J. Azzi.1

    1Transplantation Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, NY.

    The constitutive Proteasomes (c-20S) are ubiquitously expressed cellular proteases that degrade polyubiquitinated proteins and regulate cell functions. However, immunoproteasomes (IP or i-20S) are primarily expressed…
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