Articles tagged "Liver"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Immunomodulation During Normothermic Ex Vivo Machine Perfusion of the Rat Liver
K. Carlson¹, F. Najmabadi¹, J. Pavan-Guimaraes¹, W. J. Burlingham¹, C. M. Capitini², D. P. Al-Adra¹
¹Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ²Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Transplantation is the best treatment option for end-stage liver failure. There remains a critical need to develop targeted therapeutic strategies to decrease graft rejection…
2020 American Transplant Congress
An Immune-Modulatory Strategy to Mitigate Hepatic Ischemia Reperfusion/Injury in a Murine Model
A. Kobayashi¹, A. Wanchoo², J. Simonovich², S. Duarte¹, V. Boominathan¹, S. Shrestha¹, G. Hudalla², B. Keselowsky²
¹Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: Hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) is the leading cause of early graft dysfunction and contributes to the shortage of donor organs. However, despite its obvious…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparative Proteomics Analysis Identifies L-FABP as a Putative Biomarker of Graft Injury During Liver Transplantation Using the ITRAQ/MRM Approach
M. Chen, Y. Zhang, M. Han, W. Ju, Q. Zhao, Y. Chen, D. Wang, X. He
Transplant Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: In liver transplantation, much of factors have a pernicious influence on liver donor quality, such as hepatic steatosis, long term of donor hypotension, cardiac…
2020 American Transplant Congress
3D Bioprinted Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Model and 7-Day Perfusion with Gemcitabine and Cisplatin: Modeling the Tumor Microenvironment and Response to Chemotherapy
A. M. Chen¹, W. Zhang¹, J. Sterner², L. Kennedy³, A. Isidan¹, E. Gramelspacher¹, H. L. Francis³, G. Alpini³, L. J. Smith², P. Li¹, B. Ekser¹
¹Division of Transplant Surgery - Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ²3D Bioprinting Core and Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences - Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ³Division of Gastroenterology, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center and Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Over 8,000 patients are newly diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) in the United States each year.Understanding the CCA microenvironment will facilitate the development of novel…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Biomarkers AFP in Combination with AFP-l3 and DCP Predicts Tumor Progression in Treatment Native HCC Patients
K. Nunez, T. Sandow, P. Thevenot, A. Cohen
Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA
*Purpose: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treatment with locoregional therapy (LRT) is standard treatment to downstage within Milan Criteria. In this study, we retrospectively analyzed early-stage HCC…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Opioid Use Prior to Liver Transplant is Associated with Increased Risk of Death after Transplant
H. J. Braun, M. P. Schwab, C. Jin, D. Amara, T. Grace, R. Croci, C. E. Freise, J. P. Roberts, R. Hirose, N. L. Ascher
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: The impact of the opioid epidemic on liver transplant (LT) candidates and recipients has not been widely studied, but pre-LT opioid use in LT…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Antibiotic Pretreatment Alleviates Liver Transplant Damage by Modulating the Composition of Commensal Microbiota
K. J. Dery, S. Kageyama, H. Hirao, K. Kadono, H. Kojima, R. W. Busuttil, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski
Surgery, Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The human intestinal microbiome contains more than 100 trillion commensal microorganisms, exceeding the number of cells in the human body by 10-fold. Although recent…
2020 American Transplant Congress
TGR5/Cathepsin E Signaling Regulates Macrophage Innate Immune Activation in the Sterile Inflammatory Liver Injury
H. Zhou, S. Zhou, Q. Wang, Z. Rao, X. Wang, L. Lu
The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
*Purpose: The hepatic proinflammatory response represents a major cause of liver ischemia and reperfusion (IR) injury. Although the role of plasma membrane-bound G protein-coupled bile…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Nanodiamond-Doxorubicin Complexes Improve Hepatic Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury
A. Kobayashi, C. Grady, S. Duarte, V. Boominathan, S. Shrestha, A. Zarrinpar
Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: Hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major inflammatory event in liver transplantation that is mediated by oxidative stress. Doxorubicin (DOX) can mitigate oxidative stress…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Everolimus-Treatment Inhibits the Transition of the Immature Subsets of Liver Natural Killer Cells to Mature State and Enhances Anti-Tumor Activity
Y. Tanaka, J. Saparbay, H. Ohdan
Gastreenterological and Transplant Surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
*Purpose: The immunosuppressive regimen currently used after organ transplantation efficiently reduces the adaptive immune components. During suppressed adaptive immunity, the innate immune cells may play…