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  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Damage Associated Molecular Patterns (DAMPs)-Activated Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation Exacerbates Liver Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

    H. Huang, S. Tohme, A. Al-Khafaji, A. Tsung.

    Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Liver ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury is a clinically important phenomenon encountered during transplantation that contributes to initial graft function and subsequent allograft rejection. Formation of neutrophil…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Interleukin-17 Deficiency Attenuates Renal Allograft Injury and Prolongs Survival in a Murine Transplantation Model

    T. Kwan,1,2 S. Chadban,1,2 J. Ma,1,2 S. Bao,2,3 S. Alexander,2,4 H. Wu.1,2

    1Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 2Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 3Discipline of Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 4Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

    Aim:To investigate the role of IL-17 in allograft rejection using a murine model of fully MHC-mismatched renal transplantation.Methods:Life-sustaining kidney transplants were performed in nephrectomized mice:…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Inflammasome Activation in Hepatocytes and Kupffer Cells Orchestrates the Hepatotoxic Effect of Bile Acids and Can Be Potential Target in the Management of Cholestatic Liver Injury

    X. Liu,1 T. Ma,1 T. Billiar,2 R. Tao.1

    1Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Zhejiang Provincial Peoples' Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China; 2Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Purpose: Cholestatic liver injury (CLI) is commonly associated with many hepatobiliary diseases and substantially increases the peri-operative morbidity and mortality in liver surgery and transplantation.…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Macrophage-Specific SIRT1 Regulates HO-1 Mediated Anti-Inflammatory and Cytoprotective Pathways

    K. Nakamura,1 M. Zhang,2 B. Ke,1 R. Busuttil,1 J. Araujo,2 J. Kupiec-Weglinski.1

    1Surgery, Liver Transplant, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; 2Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.

    Background/Aim: Sirtuin1 (SIRT1), a NAD+-dependent type III histone/protein deacetylase, is essential for resistance against liver ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). We asked whether SIRT1 may affect cytoprotective…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    miR-155 Different Roles in UCB iTreg and nTreg

    Y. Lu, L. Lu.

    Liver Transplantation Center of First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

    OBJECTIVES:miR-155 has been associated with both innate and adaptive immune responses. SOCS1, which is involved in Treg survival and function, is a direct target of…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Macrophage Specific β-Catenin Controls ROCK/PTEN Function and Regulates Innate Immunity in Liver Inflammation

    S. Yue,1 X. Zhou,2 M. Zhou,1 Y. Zhai,1 R. Busuttil,1 Q. Ying,2 J. Kupiec-Weglinski,1 B. Ke.1

    1Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Dept. of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 2Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, Dept. of Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

    Background: It has been shown that β-catenin is an important regulator of cell development, regeneration, and carcinogenesis. Our previous studies demonstrated the key role of…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Leukocyte Associated Immunoglobulin-Like Receptor 1 inhibits Th1 But Enhances Th17 Responses

    V. Agashe,1 M. Keller,2 L. Haynes,1 E. Jankowska-Gan,1 J. Sullivan,1 J. Kernien,1 H. Suzuki,3 D. Wilkes,4 W. Burlingham.1

    1Surgery, UW Madison, Madison, WI; 2Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; 3Chiba Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan; 4Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.

    Background: Leukocyte Associated Immunoglobulin-like Receptor 1 (LAIR1), is a transmembrane receptor expressed by immune cells. It recognizes collagen repeats via its extracellular domain and has…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Eomes-Expressing CD8+ T Cells and Th17 Cells Mediate Costimulatory Blockade-Resistant Allograft Rejection in Mice

    M. Sabet-Baktach,1 E. Eggenhofer,1 P. Renner,1 M. Lantow,1 H. Schlitt,1 E. Geissler,1 A. Kroemer.1,2

    1Department of Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; 2Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC.

    The etiology of costimulatory blockade-resistant allograft rejection remains unclear. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the responsiveness of distinct CD4+ and CD8+…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    miRNA-181 Promotes Graft Prolongation by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells By Increasing T Regulatory Cells and Decreasing B Cells as Revealed By Cytometry By Time-Of-Flight

    A. Lau,1,2 M. Vitalone,1 X. Qu,1 T. Shawler,1 O. Martinez,1 C. Esquivel,1 S. Krams.1

    1Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 2Pediatrics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.

    Liver allografts are well tolerated and other solid organ allografts, when transplanted concurrently with livers, show improved outcomes. However, the mechanisms underlying “hepatic tolerance” have…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Blocking CD40/CD154 Co-Stimulation Prevents Acute Antibody-Mediated Renal Allograft Rejection Induced by Memory CD4 T Cells

    V. Gorbacheva, R. Fan, A. Valujskikh.

    Immunology, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

    Immunosuppression-resistant alloreactive memory CD4 T cells induce robust responses against organ transplants. In murine heart allograft recipients donor-reactive memory CD4 T cells provide help for…
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