Articles tagged "Mice, knockout"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Withaferin A as a Possible Therapy for Chronic Allograft Nephropathy
T. Divanyan¹, D. Patel¹, E. Acosta¹, D. Howard², F. Jourd'heuil², D. Jourd'heuil², R. Lopez-Soler³
¹Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, ²Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, ³Surgery, Section of Transplantation, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
*Purpose: One of the possible steps in the development of post-transplant interstitial fibrosis is epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) of proximal renal tubular cells with…
2019 American Transplant Congress
CCR5-Mediated Recruitment of NK Cells to the Kidney is a Critical Step for Host Defense to Candida albicans Infection
H. R. Cho¹, V. G. Tran², N. N. Nguyen³, S. Lee⁴, S. W. Kang⁴, J. Kim⁴, H. J. Kim⁴, S. J. Park¹, J. S. Lee⁵, B. Kwon⁶
¹Department of Surgery, Ulsan University Hospital, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of, ²School of Biological Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Republic of Korea, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of, ³1School of Biological Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Republic of Korea, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Biomedical Research Center, Ulsan University Hospital, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of, ⁵Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of, ⁶Biomedical Research Center, Ulsan University Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Candida albicans infection causes a high rate of mortality in immunocompromised or transplant patients. In this study, we investigated the role of CCR5 that…