2017 American Transplant Congress
MicroRNAs and Long Non-Coding RNAs as Potential Novel Biomarkers in Transplanted Patients with Candida Infection.
There is an urgent need to develop sensitive and specific biomarkers for the early diagnosis of candida infection in transplanted patients. miRNAs and lncRNAs are…2017 American Transplant Congress
NFAT-Regulated Cytokine Gene Expression for Immune Monitoring in Kidney Transplant Recipients – A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Purpose: To demonstrate that a pharmacodynamics assay using Real Time (RT)-PCR to measure residual expression (RE) of nuclear factor of activated T cell (NFAT)-dependent cytokines…2016 American Transplant Congress
Development of a Vascularized Thymus-Sternum Composite Tissue Allograft Model in Non-Human Primates.
Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
Purpose: Vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) has demonstrated clinical success with standard immunosuppressive strategies in face, hand, and forearm transplantations. We developed a non-human primate model…2016 American Transplant Congress
Viral Gastroenteritis in Adult and Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) Patients.
BACKGROUND. Diarrhea in SOT recipients is common and often attributed to immunosuppressive drug side effects. However, enteric viruses are important causes of acute gastroenteritis and…2016 American Transplant Congress
Developing a PCR-Based System to Access the Correlation of Local Chimerism and Fate of the Vascularized Composite Allotransplant.
It is established that development of mixed chimerism following allotransplantation is associated with induction of tolerance to allotransplants. Although chimerism in peripheral blood can be…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile Infection in a National Kidney Transplant Center.
BackgroundKidney transplant recipients (KTRs) are at increased risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). We aimed to retrospectively describe the epidemiology of CDI in a national…2015 American Transplant Congress
Small RNA Sequencing-Enabled Discovery of Circulating Extracellular MicroRNAs as Noninvasive Biomarkers of Liver Allograft Status
1Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York; 2Rockefeller University, New York.
MicroRNAs are ideal candidates as blood-based biomarkers. Comprehensive profiling of microRNAs is challenging. We overcame the existing challenges by developing robust protocols for isolation of…2015 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of the Gastrointestinal Tract as a Potential Route of Primary Polyomavirus Infection
Detection of Polyomavirus(Py) DNA in metropolitan river water worldwide has led to the suggestion that primary viral infection can occur by the oral route. The…
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