Articles tagged "T helper cells"

2015 American Transplant Congress
BAFF Binding to T Cell-Expressed BAFF-R Promotes Follicular Helper T Cell Proliferation and GC B Cell Responses
M. Chen,¹ Q. Li,¹ W. Stohl,² S. Zheng,² X. He,¹ Z. Guo.¹
¹Organ Transplant Center, 1st affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; ²Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
Recent studies have defined a crucial role for the B cell–activating factor belonging to TNF family (BAFF) in promoting germinal center (GC) responses in mouse…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Immunological Characterization of Full Facial Transplant Recipients
T. Borges,¹ J. Azzi,¹ S. Tullius,¹ A. Chandraker,¹ B. Pomahac,² N. Najafian,¹ L. Riella.¹
¹Transplant Research Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; ²Plastic Surgery, Boston.
Background: Despite the skin being considered the most immunogenic of all human tissues, full facial transplantation (FFT) has become a life transforming procedure with encouraging…