Articles tagged "Tolerance"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Infusion of Extracorporeal Photopheresis Treated Donor Splenocytes Leads to Long-Term Liver Allograft Survival and Donor Specific Tolerance in Rats.
X. Kang,¹ Y. Xie,² X. Yeap,² J. Wang,² J. Schneiderman,² Z. Zhang.²
¹Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, The Third Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China; ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicin, Chicago, IL.
Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP), a procedure that exposes isolated WBC to photoactivatable 8-methoxypsoralen and ultraviolet A radiation, is used clinically to treat patients with cutaneous T-cell…
2016 American Transplant Congress
In Vitro Induction of T Regulatory Cells by Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cells.
S. Stubblefield, N. Williams, A. Ting.
Regenerative Medicine, Athersys, Inc, Cleveland, OH.
There is increasing evidence that transplanted adult stemcells remain undifferentiated and often are cleared after a short time.However, these short-lived stem cells still promote recovery…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Function of Sertoli Cells in Regulating Allogeneic T Cell Differentiation into Treg and Th17 In Vitro.
L. Xie,¹ W. Jiang.²
¹Institute of Organ Transplantation, Tongji Hospital, HUST, Wuhan, China; ²Department of Rheumatology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China.
The testis as an immune-privileged site allows long-term survival of allogeneic and xenogeneic transplants. Testicular Sertoli cells (SCs) can confer local immunoprotection for cotransplanted cells…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Accepted Mouse Kidney Allografts Are Characterized by Widespread Nitrosylation.
I. Aljabban, B. Jiang, C. Yang, D. Ndishabandi, R. White, P. Russell, J. Madsen, R. Colvin, A. Alessandrini.
Center for Transplantation Sciences, Dept. of Surgery, Dept. of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Leukocytes can modulate the immune response through manipulation of amino acid metabolism. Research indicates that depletion of L-arginine and generation of nitric oxide (NO) suppresses…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Mechanisms of Alloantigen-Specific Regulation After Donor Specific Transfusion and Costimulatory Blockade in YFP-Foxp3/TdTomRed-Ebi3 Marker Mice.
Y. Tomita,¹ W. Bracamonte-Baran,¹ D. Vignali,² W. Burlingham.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; ²Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Background: In mice, donor specific transfusion (DST) plus anti-CD40L costimulatory blockade (MR-1) treatment is a standard and successful protocol to induced donor-specific transplant tolerance. Hypothesis:…
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Toll-Like Receptor (TLR) 9-Induced Resistance to Murine Cardiac Allograft Tolerance Is Dependent Upon C3a and C5a Receptor (C3aR/C5aR) Signaling.
J. Sheen, P. Heeger.
Translational Transplant Research Center, Department of Medicine and Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
TLR stimulation has been shown by others to prevent costimulatory blockade-induced allograft tolerance. Immune cell derived complement activation products C3a and C5a amplify inflammation, enhance…
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Tolerance Induction in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation with Peri-Transplant Combined Costimulation Blockade.
B. Oh,¹ G. Furtmüller,¹ M. Fryer,¹ J. Grahammer,² S. Schneeberger,² D. Cooney,¹ G. Raimondi,¹ G. Brandacher.¹
¹Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; ²Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.
[Background] Vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) is an emerging new era in transplant medicine and has become a valid therapeutic option after devastating tissue loss, such…
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The Effects of Brain Death and Ischemia on Tolerance Induction Are Organ-Specific.
S. Michel,^1,2 M. Madariaga,¹ G. LaMuraglia II,¹ R. Colvin,³ E. Farkash,³ J. Allan,^1,4 D. Sachs,¹ K. Yamada,¹ J. Madsen.^1,5
¹Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ²Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany; ³Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ⁴Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ⁵Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Background. We have previously shown that 12 days of high-dose calcineurin inhibition induced tolerance in miniature swine transplanted with MHC mismatched lung or cotransplanted heart…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The UK ONE Study: Safety and Feasibility of Regulatory T Cell Therapy in Renal Transplantation.
A. Bushell,¹ J. van der Net,^1,2 D. Game,³ R. Hilton,³ S. Thirkell,⁴ P. Friend,² E. Geissler,⁵ K. Wood,¹ P. Harden,² G. Lombardi.⁴
¹Transplantation Research Immunology Group, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; ²Oxford Transplant Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom; ³Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom; ⁴Immunoregulation Laboratory, King's College London, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom; ⁵Department of Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Introduction: The UK ONE Study trial investigates the safety and feasibility of regulatory T (Treg) cell therapy in renal transplantation.Materials and Methods: Eleven (9m;2f) living…
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Ageing as a Barrier to Transplant Tolerance.
J. Kim, R. Stott, H. Deirawan, L. Kojima, L. Washburn, G. Zhao, H. Yeh, J. Markmann.
Surgery/Transplant, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical, Boston, MA.
We recently demonstrated that ageing also impedes development of transplantation tolerance. Unlike their young counterparts (8-12 weeks of age) aged male recipients (greater than 12…