2015 American Transplant Congress
Donor Lung Preservation With the Organ Care System® Promotes a Tissue Protective and Anti-Inflammatory Response During Transplantation
ObjectivesWithin INSPIRE trial standard cold storage (SOC) is compared to normothermic, ventilated donor lung preservation (Organ-Care-System®, OCS). As lung preservation may influence immune mediators (IM),…2015 American Transplant Congress
Diabetes Mellitus Predicts Outcome in Obesity After Kidney Transplantation
Obesity has been associated with an increased risk of graft loss and death after kidney transplantation. The role of cellular immunity in obese kidney transplant…2015 American Transplant Congress
DEPTOR Is Expressed in CD4+ T Cells and Modulates Effector Responses and Allograft Rejection
Transplant Research Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
DEPTOR is an evolutionarily conserved, first-in-kind cell intrinsic factor with potential to regulate the activity of multiple intracellular signaling pathways. However, its biology in T…2015 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Utility of Allospecific CD154+T-Cells in Children With Liver Or Intestine Transplantation (LTx, ITx)
Background: Allospecific CD154+T-cytotoxic memory (CD154+TcM) have completed investigational evaluation as predictors of acute cellular rejection in children with LTx or ITx.Purpose: To evaluate CD154+TcM** as…2015 American Transplant Congress
Molecular and Functional Immune Assays as Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tools to Assess the Risk of Acute Subclinical Rejection After Kidney Transplantation
Subclinical allograft rejection (sc-AR) is still a main cause of allograft loss that can only be assessed through invasive surveillance biopsies. We sought to investigate…2015 American Transplant Congress
miR-155 Different Roles in UCB iTreg and nTreg
OBJECTIVES:miR-155 has been associated with both innate and adaptive immune responses. SOCS1, which is involved in Treg survival and function, is a direct target of…2015 American Transplant Congress
Adoptive Transfer of T Cell Receptor-Transgenic (TCR-Tg) Cells Alters Endogenous Immune Responses During Acute Rejection
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
In addition to the therapeutic use of adoptive transfer of T cells to combat viral infections and malignancies in humans, adoptive transfer of T cell…2015 American Transplant Congress
PI3Kα and STAT1 Interplay Regulates Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Immune Polarization
The immunomodulatory capacity of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) is critical for their use in therapeutic applications. MSC response to specific inflammatory cues allows them to…2015 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Levels of TFH cell-Inducing Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines Correlate With DSA Formation After Kidney Transplantation
Donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA) represent an important biomarker for acute rejection and are a major cause of long-term graft failure after kidney transplantation (KTx). The…2015 American Transplant Congress
Hepatic Stellate Cells Inhibit T Cells Through Active TGFβ1 from a Cell-Surface-Bound Latent TGFβ1/GARP Complex
Nonparenchymal cells appear to be critical to maintain the immunoprivileged status of liver as whole liver allografts are well-tolerated in mice, but allo-hepatocytes are rapidly…