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Articles tagged "Natural killer cells"

  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    EBV Latent Proteins Encode for Peptides That Prevent Natural Killer Cell Inhibition

    B. Mbiribindi1, J. K. Pena1, O. Hatton2, C. Romero Moreno1, C. O. Esquivel1, O. M. Martinez1, S. M. Krams1

    1Department of Surgery/ Division of Abdominal Transplant, Stanford University - School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 2Department of Molecular 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). Although EBV infection…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Immune Cell Types and Host Gene Signatures Associated with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD)

    J. Toh1, F. Vallania1, W. A. Haynes1, G. Bhagat2, F. E. Craig3, S. H. Swerdlow4, T. Tousseyn5, S. M. Krams1, P. Khatri1, O. M. Martinez1

    1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 2Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 3Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ, 4University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburg, PA, 5Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    *Purpose: PTLD is a serious post-transplant complication that encompasses a range of abnormal lymphoproliferations, including EBV+ B cell lymphomas. Although many are EBV-driven, a significant…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Adjuvant Immunotherapeutic Approach For Liver Transplant Recipients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Donor Liver Derived Natural Killer Cells

    M. Ohira1, R. Hotta1, Y. Imaoka1, K. Sato1, Y. Tanaka1, A. G. Tzakis2, S. Nishida3, H. Ohdan1

    1Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, 2Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, 3New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY

    *Purpose: Although liver transplantation (LT) is a preferred treatment for selected patients with Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), HCC-recurrence would be a still important medical problem. Most…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Circulating Donor T and NK Cells in Lung Transplantation Recipients Are Derived from the Donor Lung Parenchyma and Represent Tissue-Resident Memory Cells

    J. F. Kuehne1, R. Ballmàs Sanz1, A. Hitz1, B. Wiegmann2, K. A. Bläsing1, F. Ius2, A. Knoefel2, I. Tudorache2, M. Avsar2, D. Jonigk3, A. Haverich2, G. Warnecke2, C. Falk1

    1Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany, 2Department for Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany, 3Institute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany

    *Purpose: We previously identified donor lymphocytes in peripheral blood of recipients directly after transplantation and persisting at least three weeks that were characterized by the…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Soluble C Type Lectin Receptor Protein Inhibition of Natural Killer Cell Mediated Tubular Epithelial Cell Death

    S. Balaji1, B. Fuhrmann2, D. Lian3, H. Diao3, S. Ma3, Z. Zhang3, A. M. Jevnikar3

    1Physiology, Western University, London, ON, Canada, 2Microbiology and Immunology, Western University, London, ON, Canada, 3London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada

    *Purpose: We have previously shown that Natural Killer (NK) cells can mediate kidney tubular epithelial cell (TEC) death and kidney ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) as well…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Th17 and NK Responses Are Differentially Induced in Renal Allografts According to Recipient Murine Cytomegalovirus Dose and Strain

    M. Shimamura,1 M. Li,2 S. Boddeda,1 B. Chen,2 Q. Zeng,1 T. Schoeb,2 V. Velazquez.1

    1Center for Vaccines and Immunity and Dept. of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 2Depts. of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Pathology, and Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.

    Purpose: To study the impact of cytomegalovirus (CMV) recipient positive (R+) serostatus upon renal allograft injury, murine CMV (MCMV) D+/R+ kidney transplants using recipients infected…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Donor-Specific Antibody Mediates Chronic, but Not Acute, Kidney Allograft Rejection in the Absence of Natural Killer Cells

    T. Yagisawa, N. Dvorina, A. Valujskikh, W. Baldwin 3rd, R. Fairchild.

    Immunology and Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

    The incidence of antibody-mediated kidney graft rejection continues to increase. We previously reported that dysregulated donor-specific antibody (DSA) responses were induced in B6.CCR5-/- mice transplanted…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Peptides Encoded by EBV Latent Cycle Proteins Affect NK Cell Reactivity

    B. Mbiribindi, C. Romero Moreno, C. Esquivel, O. Martinez, S. Krams.

    Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.

    Introduction: Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infects more than 90% of adults worldwide and is associated with several malignancies, including post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD). Although EBV infection…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    NK Cells with a Lung-Resident Phenotype Represent the Most Prominent Donor Passenger Leukocyte Subset after Clinical Lung Transplantation

    C. Falk,1 R. BellmasSanz,1 B. Wiegmann,2 A-.M. Hitz,1 K. Bläsing,1 C. Neudörfl,1 I. Tudorache,2 C. Kühn,2 M. Avsar,2 A. Haverich,2 G. Warnecke.2

    1Institute of Transplant Immunology, IFB-Tx, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; 2Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.

    ObjectivesDonor passenger leukocytes in peripheral blood of recipients after lung transplantation have been described long time ago. However, kinetics, distribution of T vs. NK cells,…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    The Role of NKT Cell /IL-17 Axis in the Autoimmune Lupus Nephritis

    J. An,1 Y. Kim,2 M. Yu,2 J. Lee,1 C. Lee,3 Y. Kim,2 S. Yang.4

    1Internal Medicine, Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea; 2Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea; 3Internal Medicine, Cheju Halla General Hospital, Cheju, Korea; 4Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Kidney Research Institute, Seoul, Korea.

    CD1d-restrictive NKT cells may modulate various chronic autoimmunity through secreting multiple cytokines, but the functional relationships between the different subpopulation still are poorly understood. The…
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