2019 American Transplant Congress
Peripheral Blood Chemokine Levels in Kidney Allograft Rejection
University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
*Purpose: Cytokines and chemokines play a critical role in acute rejection after kidney transplantation and may be of importance in the quest for better diagnostic…2019 American Transplant Congress
Interferon Sensitivity Promotes Recovery from Acetaminophen Induced Liver Injury
Inflammation and Immunity, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: The current study was undertaken to assess the role of inflammatory signaling during induction of and recovery from acetaminophen induced acute liver failure.*Methods: C57BL/6…2018 American Transplant Congress
MERTK Mediates Transplant Tolerance via IFN-a Regulation of MDSCs and Tregs
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago.
Introduction: MERTK is one of the TAM receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) that mediate homeostatic phagocytosis of apoptotic cells, and transmit regulatory signals that modulate immune…2018 American Transplant Congress
Recipient IFNAR1 Signaling Supports Costimulation Independent Rejection by Promoting T Cell Activation
Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Costimulation blockade (CoB) is a promising strategy for more targeted/less toxic transplant immunosuppression which has led to the first improvement in long-term outcomes for transplant…2018 American Transplant Congress
Interferon-b Promotes Regulatory T Cell (Treg) Induction and Prolongs Allograft Survival
Background: Interferon-b (IFNb), a type I interferon with antiviral and pro-inflammatory activity, has been used as an immune modulatory treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). The…2018 American Transplant Congress
Immunologic Impact of Tocilizumab Treatment in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Allograft Inflammation
Background: Proinflammatory cytokine IL-6 increases effector/memory T-cells, induces Th17 cells and prevents the induction of Tregs. IL-6 expression in kidney biopsies is elevated during acute…2018 American Transplant Congress
Type-1 Interferon Impairs the Immunoregulatory Activity of IL-10: Understanding the Mechanisms of Abrogation of Transplant Tolerance
Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins UIniversity, Baltimore, MD.
A growing body of evidence shows that induction of long term transplant survival by costimulation blockade (CoB) regimens is impaired by inflammatory responses (e.g. engagement…2018 American Transplant Congress
Characterization of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Memory T Cell Subsets in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients with Previously Treated Active Tuberculosis
Introduction:Cell-mediated immune (CMI) responses including CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells contribute to control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb) infection. There are no data on long term TB-specific…2017 American Transplant Congress
Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibitor, 17DMAG Suppresses Acute Allograft Rejection and Prolongs Allograft Survival in Solid Organ Transplantation.
Urology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
Purpose: Heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) is a ubiquitously expressed molecular chaperone that is associated with the correct activation of client proteins. Important roles of…2017 American Transplant Congress
CD8+ TAb-supp Cells Are Key Inhibitors of Humoral Alloimmunity by Inhibiting CD4+TFH Cells and Killing Germinal Center B Cells.
Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Alloantibodies (alloAb) play a critical role in acute and chronic rejection after transplantation (Tx). It is well known that CD4+ T cells and B cells…
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