Articles tagged "Natural killer cells"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Cardiac Transplantation is Accompanied by Major T and NK Cell Alterations within the First 24 Hours
J. Iske¹, B. Wiegmann², K. Ludwig¹, N. Ledwoch¹, E. Chichelnitskiy¹, J. F. Kühne¹, A. Hitz¹, R. Bellmàs-Sanz¹, K. Daemen¹, J. Keil¹, F. Ius², S. Rochas², A. Knoefel², A. Haverich², G. Warnecke², C. S. Falk¹
¹Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ²Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
*Purpose: Allogeneic heart transplantation (HTx) displays the only curative approach for terminal heart insufficiency while acute allograft rejection remains a major complication. However, early kinetics…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Specific Gut Microbiota Community Suppresses Acute Rejection by Reducing Natural Killer Cell Population
W. Zhang, L. Gong, Y. Xu, X. Hu
Department of Urology, Capital Medical University Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Urology Institute of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
*Purpose: The gut microbiota community was reported to be altered by high-dose FK506 treatment, while fecal microbiota transplantation with such microbiota plus low-dose FK506 could…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Sequence Variations of the LMP1 Protein are Detected in Pediatric Transplant Recipients and May Increase the Risk of EBV Disease
B. Mbiribindi¹, M. Arvedson¹, J. Pena¹, O. Hatton², C. Esquivel¹, O. Martinez¹, S. Krams¹
¹Department of Surgery/Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford Univ School of Med, Stanford, CA, ²Molecular Biology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
*Purpose: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects more than 90% of adults worldwide and is associated with several malignancies, including post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD). PTLD is a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Immune Cell Subset Profiles in HLA-Sensitized Kidney Transplant Patients (HS KTx Pts) Desensitized with Clazakizumab (CLZ, Humanized Anti-IL-6 Monoclonal Antibody) Followed by Transplantation (Tx)
S. Ge¹, M. Chu¹, A. D. Guzman¹, E. D. Ortiz¹, A. Vo², N. Ammerman², S. C. Jordan², M. Toyoda¹
¹Transplant Immunology Laboratory, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: IL-6, B cell growth factor, increases follicular T helper cell (Tfh) activity, promoting plasmablast (PB) and plasma cell (PC) differentiation, and antibody production. A…
2019 American Transplant Congress
NK Cell Quantification by Paraffin Immunohistochemistry is Not Predictive of Graft Outcome in 1-Year Surveillance Biopsies
J. Barnes¹, F. Suliman², A. Shammout¹, E. A. Farkash¹
¹Pathology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Nephrology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Molecular and animal studies have identified NK cells as important mediators and markers of antibody mediated rejection. Using three color immunohistochemistry for CD16, T-bet,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
CD56+CD57+ Infiltrate is a Predominant Subset of Infiltrating Natural Killer Cell in Renal Transplant Biopsies with Antibody-Mediated Rejection
H. Jung¹, Y. Wee², J. Kim², M. Choi², J. Choi², H. Kwon², J. Jung², S. Kim³, Y. Cho⁴, Y. Park⁴, H. Go⁴, M. Han⁵, Y. Kim², D. Han², S. Shin²
¹Department of Biomedical Science, Asan Medical Institute of Convergence Science and Technology (AMIST), Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Convergence Medicine, Asan Institute for life sciences, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Department of Pathology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁵Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: To verify a subset of intragraft and circulating natural killer cells associated with kidney allograft rejection and fibrosis.*Methods: Thirty-nine clinically indicated transplant biopsies performed…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Natural Killer Cells Express Significantly More CD16 during Chronic Active Antibody Mediated Rejection Which is Not Caused by a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism within the CD16 Gene
K. Sablik, N. Litjens, A. Peeters, M. Clahsen-van Groningen, M. Klepper, M. Betjes
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Purpose: Chronic-active antibody mediated rejection (c-aABMR) is the leading cause of long-term renal allograft loss. Fc-receptor CD16 bearing natural killer (NK) cells may be involved…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Back Signaling of HLA Class I Molecules and NK Cell Receptor Ligands in Renal Epithelial Cells Contributes to the Rejection-Specific Microenvironment
E. Chichelnitskiy¹, J. Egelkamp¹, K. Daemen¹, J. Keil¹, C. Neudörfl¹, J. Bräsen², J. Schmitz², H. Haller³, C. Blume⁴, C. Falk⁵
¹Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ²Nephropathology Unit, Institute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ³Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ⁴Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Institute of Technical Chemistry, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany, ⁵Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover Medical School; DZIF, German Center for Infection Research, TTU-IICH, Hannover/Braunschweig, Germany
*Purpose: During the last years, diverse harming mechanisms of donor-specific antibodies (DSA) to endothelial cells have been studied accompanied by an emerging evidence of NK…
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…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Broadly Profiling the Activation Status of Circulating Immune Cells in Chronic Active Antibody Mediated Rejetion Reveals Increased CD38 and CD16 Expression on Monocytes and NK Cells
K. Sablik, N. Litjens, M. Klepper, M. Betjes
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Purpose: Chronic-active antibody mediated rejection (c-aABMR) contributes significantly to late renal allograft failure. Non-invasive biomarkers of c-aABMR are currently not available but could be valuable…