Articles tagged "Natural killer cells"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Detection of Donor-Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies Is Associated With Changes in the Peripheral Distribution of NK Cell Subsets in Kidney Allograft Recipients
M. Crespo,¹ D. Redondo,¹ J. Yelamos,² A. Muntasell,² M. Pérez-Sáez,¹ M. Lopez-Montañes,³ C. Garcia,⁴ A. Torío,⁵ J. Hernandez,⁴ M. Mir,¹ M. Lopez-Botet,³ J. Pascual.¹
¹Nephrology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; ²Servicio de Inmunología, Institut Mar d'Investigacions Mediques, Barcelona, Spain; ³Grup de Investigacio en Immunologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; ⁴Laboratori de Referencia de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; ⁵Immunology Unit, Hospital de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Background: Microvascular damage has become the real protagonist involved in antibody-mediated rejection and NK-cell antibody-dependent cell mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) has been proposed as a contributing…