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Articles tagged "T cell activation"

  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    The Adapter Protein TSAd Regulates Mitochondrial Lck Activity and is Potent to Enhance Immunoregulation Following Transplantation

    J. Wedel1, M. P. Stack1, T. Seto1, K. Liu1, I. E. Stillman2, D. M. Briscoe1

    1Transplant Research Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: T cell Specific Adaptor Protein (TSAd, encoded by the SH2D2A gene) is an intracellular adapter molecule that binds Lck and functions to elicit T…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    BTLA Suppressed Acute Rejection by Regulating T Cell Receptor Downstream Signal Pathways and Cytokine Production in Renal Transplant and Contributed to Prolongation of Allograft Survival

    J. Zhang, Z. Wang, S. Fei, H. Chen, L. Sun, Z. Han, J. Tao, X. Ju, R. Tan, M. Gu

    No.300 Guangzhou Road of Nanjing, Nanjing, China

    *Purpose: The present study aimed to investigate the role of BTLA in the progress of acute rejection after kidney transplantation.*Methods: In human allograft renal transplanted…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    The Immunomodulatory Role of Type I Interferons in Alloimmunity

    I. Sulkaj, H. Allos, S. K. Eskandari, J. M. Safadi, J. Y. Choi, B. S. Al Dulaijan, E. Al-Hussain, S. Cai, J. R. Azzi

    Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: Despite a growing body of work on type 1 interferon (IFNAR1) signaling, there is a lack of consensus on the immunological properties of type…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Recipient Monocytes Activated by Endobronchial Toll-Like Receptor 2 Agonist Prevent Tolerance Induction after Lung Transplantation

    S. Tanaka1, J. M. Gauthier1, Y. Terada1, T. Takahashi1, W. Li1, R. Higashikubo1, A. Y. Tong1, V. Puri1, A. S. Krupnick2, A. E. Gelman1, D. Kreisel1

    1Department of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2Department of Surgery, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

    *Purpose: Extended criteria lung donors are being increasingly utilized, raising the possibility of transplanting lungs with a pre-existing pneumonia; how donor pneumonia alters alloimmune responses,…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    A Novel Method for Ex Vivo Treg Expansion via Human iNKT Cell Activation

    R. Ishii1, I. Masako1, H. Katsumata1, T. Kanzawa1, T. Yamakawa1, H. Ishigooka1, T. Hirai1, K. Saiga1, M. Okumi1, Y. Ishii2, K. Tanabe1

    1Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, 2Vaccine Innovation Laboratory RIKEN Cluster for Science, Technology and Innovation Hub (RCSTI), Kanagawa, Japan

    *Purpose: Tregs play a critical role in immune tolerance. If Tregs can be administered to patients suffering from immune disorders, most therapies employing existing immunosuppressants…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Activity Nanosensors for Early and Noninvasive Detection of Acute Organ Transplant Rejection

    Q. Mac,1 D. Mathews,2 J. Kahla,1 C. Stoffers,1 O. Delmas,1 B. Holt,1 A. Adams,2 G. Kwong.1

    1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; 2Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.

    Purpose: We engineered activity nanosensors that sense anti-allograft T cell activity in vivo to noninvasively detect the onset of acute cellular rejection from urine.Methods: Granzyme…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Belatacept-Refractory CD8+CD28–CD38hi Effector/Memory T Cells Are Targeted by mTOR Inhibition Leading to a Preferential Loss of CD40L

    C. Castro Rojas,1 A. Godarova,1 A. Rike Shields,2 R. Alloway,2 M. Jordan,3 E. Woodle,2 D. Hildeman.1

    1Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH; 2Division of Transplantation, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH; 3Division of Bone Marrow Transplant and Immune Deficiency, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH.

    Calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) and corticosteroids (CSS) have substantial untoward side effects, most notably nephrotoxicity. Consequently, the FDA approved belatacept for maintenance immunosuppression. We recently completed…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Recipient IFNAR1 Signaling Supports Costimulation Independent Rejection by Promoting T Cell Activation

    D. Mathews, A. Ghosh, Y. Dong, K. Polireddy, A. Stephenson, C. Breeden, Y. Liu, A. Adams.

    Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

    Costimulation blockade (CoB) is a promising strategy for more targeted/less toxic transplant immunosuppression which has led to the first improvement in long-term outcomes for transplant…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Bone Marrow Derived Myeloid Suppressor Cell (BM-MDSCs) Prolongs the Graft Survival in Murine Heart Transplantation

    K. Uchida, K. Fujimoto, K. Takeda, H. Bashuda, E. Yin, K. Okumura.

    Atopy(Allergy) Research Center, Juntento University, Tokyo, Japan.

    Purpose: To investigate the impact of BM-MDSCs on murine heart transplantationMaterial and Methods:Bone marrow cells were harvested and cultured with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Lymph Node Stromal Laminins Affect Graft Survival through Regulation of CD4 T Cell Proliferation and Migration

    L. Li, T. Simon, W. Piao, Y. Xiong, V. Saxena, T. Zhang, C. Wagner, J. Bromberg.

    University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.

    Background: Our prior studies demonstrated that tolerance and immunity are associated with differential expression of lymph node (LN) stromal laminins α4β1γ1 (411) and α5β1γ1 (511),…
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