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Articles tagged "Inflammation"

  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Recombinant TSGL-Ig Protects Liver Endothelial Cells Against Prolonged Cold Preservation Injury in Mouse Liver Transplantation.

    C. Zhang,1,2 H. Ji,1 Y. Liu,1,2 Y. Zhang,1,2 X.-D. Shen,1 F. Gao,1 R. Busuttil, G. Shaw, J. Kupiec-Weglinski.

    1Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; 2Department of Surgery, Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

    Background: Liver endothelial cells (LEC) suffer from ROS-mediated stress in the pathogenesis of liver ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). We used a novel recombinant form of soluble…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Primary Graft Failure following Cardiac Transplantation Is Associated with Elevated Pre-Transplant Levels of Pro-Inflammatory Factors.

    D. Chatterjee,1 K. Clerkin,1 K. Rogers,1 D. Mancini,1 Y. Naka,1 H. Takayama,2 K. Takeda,2 P. Colombo,2 G. Vlad,3 R. Vasilescu,3 B. Levin,4 M. Farr,1 S. Restaino,1 E. Zorn.1

    1Columbia University Medical Center, NY; 2Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, NY; 3Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, NY; 4Biostatistics, Columbia University Medical Center, NY.

    Primary graft failure (PGF) is defined as severe ventricular dysfunction immediately following heart transplantation (HTx) requiring temporary mechanical circulatory support (MCS) such as VA ECMO…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    High Concentrations of CXCL9 and CXCL10 Chemokines but Not CXCL8 (IL-8), IL-6, TNF-a or IFN-g in Biopsy Tissue Are Associated with Pathological Staging of Rejection After Kidney Transplantation.

    C. Falk,1 C. Neudörfl,1 K. Daemen,1 J. Keil,1 F. Lehner,2 H. Haller,3 J. Schmitz,4 C. Blume,5 J.-H. Bräsen.4

    1Institute of Transplant Immunology, IFB-Tx, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; 2Department of Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Deutschland, Germany; 3Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Deutschland, Germany; 4Institute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Deutschland, Germany; 5Institute of Technical Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Deutschland, Germany.

    Background: Extensive expression profiling efforts of biopsy tissue after kidney transplantation indicate that rejection, especially antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) can be defined by distinct signatures. Thus,…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Subnormothermic Machine Perfusion (SNMP) with a Hemoglobin Based Oxygen Carrier (HBOC) Solution Reprograms Dynamic Inflammation Networks When Compared to Cold Storage (CS) in a Porcine Liver Allograft Model.

    D. Sadowsky, R. Zamora, B. Banan, D. Barclay, J. Yin, Y. Vodovotz, P. Fontes.

    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

    Introduction: Inflammatory markers have been mostly studied by standard statistical analysis focused on single component variations. This study aimed to compare SNMP with CS regarding…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Comparison of Early Engraftment Immunobiology of Xenoislets and Alloislets in a Dual Transplant Model.

    K. Samy,1 B. Martin,2 M. Song,1 B. Collins,1 E. Gall,1 J. Cano,2 A. Farris,2 F. Leopardi,1 A. Kirk.1,2

    1Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 2Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

    Purpose: Successful implementation of neonatal porcine islet (NPI) xenotransplantation requires an understanding of the xenospecific immune elements influencing engraftment. To elucidate these early xenospecific processes,…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Th17 Development Is Critical for Airway Epithelial Injury After Transplantation.

    J. Xu, Y. Zhang, L. Wang, X. Li, R. Chen, R. Zhang, Y. Ding.

    Department of Immunology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

    Background: Development of obliterative bronchiolitis (OB) is the biggest obstacle that limits long-term allograft survival and clinical application of lung transplantation, and the precise mechanisms…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Distinctive Roles of Gsk3 Inhibitory Phosphorylation in Liver Inflammatory Immune Response and Hepatocellular Injury Against Ischemia Reperfusion.

    H. Zhou,1,2 J. Zhu,1 S. Yue,1 R. Busuttil,1 J. Kupiec-weglinski,1 L. Lu,2 Y. Zhai.1

    1Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine-UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 2Liver Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.

    Background & AimsGlycogen synthase kinase 3 (Gsk3) a and b are ubiquitously expressed, constitutively active serine/threonine kinases, which play complex roles in cell activation, proliferation…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Acute Inflammation, Chronic Damage and Renal Dysfunction in Renal Transplant Recipients with Delayed Graft Function (DGF).

    A. Cherukuri, R. Mehta, P. Sood, P. Randhawa, A. Tevar, S. Hariharan.

    UPMC, Pittsburgh.

    Analysis of DGF and clinical outcomes in relation to progressive histological changes is not well reported. In this prospective longitudinal study, patients with DGF were…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Sharpin Expression Modulates TNFα Mediated Inflammation and Cardiac Allograft Rejection in Mice.

    R. Ang,1 P. Heeger,2 A. Ting.1

    1Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY; 2Center for Translational Transplant Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY.

    Increased systemic TNFα levels correlate with transplant rejection and severity of GVHD, and TNFα blockade can prolong graft survival and reduce severity of GVHD. These…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Activation of Innate Immunity During Human OLT-IRI Triggers Adaptive Immunity and Correlates with the Degree of IRI Injury.

    A. Zarrinpar,1 R. Sosa,2 P. Rao,2 C. Lassman,2 R. Busuttil,1 D. Gjertson,2 J. Kupiec-Weglinski,1 E. Reed.2

    1Surgery, Dumont-UCLA Transplant Ctr, Los Angeles, CA; 2Pathology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

    Ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) can severely compromise graft and recipient survival. We postulate this is mediated by interactions between the…
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