Evidence that glucocorticosteroids block expression of the human interleukin-6 gene by accessory cells.

abstract：:The NOD mouse develops immune-mediated diabetes mellitus characterized by T cell infiltration and destruction of pancreatic islet tissue. We wished to determine whether one contributing factor was an abnormality of the NOD pancreas that caused it to elicit an attack by NOD T cells. Therefore we constructed mice that h...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Stein PH,Rees MA,Singer A

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agarose is known to inhibit nonspecifically the cytotoxic effects of normal sera on xenogeneic lymphoid cells. To find an explanation for this agarose effect we have studied its requirements using guinea pig and human sera as the source of activity and rat thymocytes as target cells. Control assays were performed usin...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Budzko DB,Kierszenbaum F

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of cariporide (a sodium-hydrogen exchanger inhibitor), BMS180448 (a pharmacologic ischemic preconditioning agent), and the combination thereof, as adjuvant therapies for extended cardiac allograft preservation. METHODS:A porcine model of donor brain death ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Ryan JB,Hicks M,Cropper JR,Garlick SR,Kesteven SH,Wilson MK,Feneley MP,Macdonald PS

更新日期：2003-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary hyperoxaluria is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disease that often progresses to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Liver transplantation is curative for patients with the alanine: glyoxylate aminotransferase deficiency. For oxalosis patients with minor enzyme deficiencies, renal transplantation m...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Cibrik DM,Kaplan B,Arndorfer JA,Meier-Kriesche HU

更新日期：2002-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver transplantation (LT) is the most effective treatment for small and unresectable hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs). With scarcity of deceased donor livers, living donor LT (LDLT) is the alternative to deceased donor LT (DDLT). Animal studies have suggested that regeneration of the partial liver graft encourages HC...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Chan SC

更新日期：2014-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systemic amyloidosis complicated by heart failure is associated with high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Heart transplantation for patients with systemic amyloidosis is controversial due to recurrence of disease in the transplanted organ or progression of disease in other organs. METHODS:All patien...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Maurer MS,Raina A,Hesdorffer C,Bijou R,Colombo P,Deng M,Drusin R,Haythe J,Horn E,Lee SH,Marboe C,Naka Y,Schulman L,Scully B,Shapiro P,Prager K,Radhakrishnan J,Restaino S,Mancini D

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study analyzes the biochemical, serological, and virological efficacy and the safety of adefovir dipivoxil in patients with renal disturbances. METHODS:Twelve patients with lamivudine-resistant hepatitis B virus (HBV) chronic infection were treated for a median time of 15 (3-19) months. The daily dosag...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Fontaine H,Vallet-Pichard A,Chaix ML,Currie G,Serpaggi J,Verkarre V,Varaut A,Morales E,Nalpas B,Brosgart C,Pol S

更新日期：2005-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Though the high immunosuppressive efficacy of cyclosporine has revolutionized clinical transplantation, renal, hepatic, and neural toxicities limit its therapeutic potential. One approach to this problem is to combine CsA therapy with immunosuppressive agents that act synergistically with it, thereby permitting lower ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Vathsala A,Chou TC,Kahan BD

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite major advances in immunopharmacology, virtually all patients receive the same center-specific immunosuppressive regimen following orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The present analysis was performed on the hypothesis that the original disease representing the indication for OLT leads to a different initi...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Berlakovich GA,Imhof M,Karner-Hanusch J,Gotzinger P,Gollackner B,Gnant M,Hanelt S,Laufer G,Muhlbacher F,Steininger R

更新日期：1996-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kidney donation after cardiac death leads to vascular damage as a result of warm ischemia, affecting renovascular circulating volume. Novel ultrasound dilution techniques may be used to measure renovascular circulating volumes during hypothermic machine perfusion of donor kidneys. METHODS:Renovascular circu...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： de Vries EE,van Smaalen TC,Boer J,Hoogland ER,Krivitski NM,Snoeijs MG,van Heurn LW

更新日期：2013-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of anti-B-cell and T-cell immunosuppressive agents leads to only a few weeks' survival of mouse-to-rat cardiac xenografts. METHODS:BALB/c cardiac xenografts were transplanted to Lewis rats treated with cyclosporine (CsA) and/or cobra venom factor (CVF). RESULTS:CsA alone did not prolong xenograft s...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Koyamada N,Miyatake T,Candinas D,Mark W,Hechenleitner P,Hancock WW,Soares MP,Bach FH

更新日期：1998-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in kidney allograft recipients. In this post hoc analysis of a randomized clinical trial which tested the effect of denosumab on bone mineral density, we assessed the impact of this drug on the incidence and severity of infections in the first year afte...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Bonani M,Frey D,de Rougemont O,Mueller NJ,Mueller TF,Graf N,Wüthrich RP

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether humoral autoimmune responses associated with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) influence the postoperative clinical course following cardiac transplantation. METHODS:ELISA levels of preformed cardiac myosin (CM) autoantibodies (Abs) in patients with a pretransplant diagnosis of dilated cardi...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Warraich RS,Pomerance A,Stanley A,Banner NR,Dunn MJ,Yacoub MH

更新日期：2000-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two patients underwent cadaver transplantation with kidneys from a donor with a history of World Health Organization Class IV/V lupus nephritis, and we report their clinical and pathological outcome. METHODS:The donor had a diagnosis of lupus nephritis made by renal biopsy 5 years before donation. At the ti...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Lipkowitz GS,Madden RL,Kurbanov A,Mulhern JG,O'Shea MH,Germain MJ,Freeman J,Braden GL

更新日期：2000-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the outcome of islet transplantation has improved, there remains a major obstacle in isolating viable islets from prolonged preserved pancreas. We previously reported that the two-layer cold storage method (TLM) improved the yield and in vitro function. In this study, we performed in vivo accurate f...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Kakinoki K,Fujino Y,Suzuki Y,Li S,Tanioka Y,Sakai T,Kuroda Y

更新日期：2005-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During acute rejection of rat renal allografts, numerous activated monocytes accumulate in the vasculature of the graft. These monocytes seem to be involved in allograft destruction. Proinflammatory and effector functions of monocytes and macrophages can be down-regulated by peroxisome proliferators, which are probabl...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Grau V,Garn H,Bette M,Spener F,Steiniger B,Gemsa D,Stehling O

更新日期：2003-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased susceptibility to bacterial infection is a recognized side-effect of sirolimus treatment after transplantation, which could be caused by inhibition of neutrophil activation. Blood from 24 healthy subjects was equilibrated with 0 to 50 ng/mL sirolimus or 60 microg/mL propofol. Blood was also collected from 23...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Gee I,Trull AK,Charman SC,Alexander GJ

更新日期：2003-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative absorption-blocking assay was used to measure the levels of antibody in immune rabbit sera that react with the serologically defined HLA molecular complex on the cell surface. Quantitation was determined by comparing the number of xenoantibody-treated cells with the number of untreated control cells nee...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Wilson LA,Gallaspy GT

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delayed graft function (DGF) after renal transplantation can be diagnosed according to several different definitions, complicating comparison between studies that use DGF as an endpoint. This is a particular problem after transplantation with kidneys from donation after circulatory death (DCD) kidneys, becau...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Mallon DH,Summers DM,Bradley JA,Pettigrew GJ

更新日期：2013-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this report, we compare the long-term outcome of pediatric liver transplantation (LTx) patients maintained with tacrolimus-based and with cyclosporine (CsA)-based immunosuppressive therapy. We examine long-term patient and graft survival, the incidence of rejection, and immunosuppression-related complicat...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Jain A,Mazariegos G,Kashyap R,Green M,Gronsky C,Starzl TE,Fung J,Reyes J

更新日期：2000-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection remains one of the major complications of nonspecific immunosuppression in renal transplant patients and accounts for significant morbidity and mortality. The incidence of infectious complications has been shown to be related to the degree of immunosuppression and correlated with the total steroid dosage, us...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Salama AD,Rogers T,Lord GM,Lechler RI,Mason PD

更新日期：1997-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A major impediment to the wider application of clinical liver transplantation is the paucity of acceptable organs. Most centers refuse organs that come from donors who are hepatitis B core antibody positive because of a fear of transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection to the recipient. The risk related to the...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Van Thiel DH,De Maria N,Colantoni A,Friedlander L

更新日期：1999-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hamster hearts transplanted into stable rat recipients of hamster livers (OLT rats) were hyperacutely rejected after transfer with unaltered rat antihamster hyperimmune serum (HS). This was followed by immediate liver xenograft rejection in 4 of 5 rats. In contrast, simple heat inactivation of the rat HS resulted in p...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Valdivia LA,Fung JJ,Demetris AJ,Celli S,Pan F,Tsugita M,Starzl TE

更新日期：1994-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have previously shown that an immunomodulatory enzyme, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) in dermal fibroblasts generates a tryptophan-deficient environment that selectively inhibits proliferation and induces apoptosis of bystander CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, but not pancreatic islets. Because these immune cell...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hosseini-Tabatabaei A,Jalili RB,Khosravi-Maharlooei M,Hartwell R,Kilani RT,Zhang Y,Ghahary A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Co-stimulatory blockade has been shown to prolong allograft survival in different transplant models. We investigated the effect of combining humanized anti-CD80 and anti-CD86 monoclonal antibodies (mAb) with sirolimus in cynomolgus monkey renal transplant recipients. METHODS:After renal transplantation, gro...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Bîrsan T,Hausen B,Higgins JP,Hubble RW,Klupp J,Stalder M,Celniker A,Friedrich S,O'Hara RM,Morris RE

更新日期：2003-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Unstimulated whole saliva and serum samples were collected from ten allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipients before and after bone marrow transplantation, seven donors, and from twenty healthy individuals. Two patterns with regard to salivary IgA were found after transplantation. In five patients, a short-lasting ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Norhagen-Engström G,Hammarström L,Lönnqvist B,Söder PO,Smith CI

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the development of liver injury during preservation for transplantation, phospholipid degradation may be of importance. We therefore measured the degradation of [3H]-arachidonic acid (20:4)- and [14C]-linoleic acid (18:2)-labeled phospholipids during cold and warm preservation of rat livers in Eurocollins, Univers...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Ar'Rajab A,Ahrén B,Nilsson A

更新日期：1994-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic growth factors (HGF) mobilize potential tolerogenic cells in transplant donors. Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 ligand (Flt3L) mobilizes stem cells and dendritic cells (DCs) in human and nonhuman primate blood. Blood and renal and liver biopsies were obtained from untreated and Flt3L-mobilized rhesus macaques...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Morelli AE,Coates PT,Shufesky WJ,Barratt-Boyes SM,Fung JJ,Demetris AJ,Thomson AW

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses upon two discrete components of posttransplant hepatic reticuloendothelial system (RES) function-phagocytosis and killing of bacteria-under various conditions of ischemic preservation. We had previously reported that, following intravenous injection of rats with 51Cr and 125I double-labeled Escheric...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Klein AS,Zhadkevich M,Wang D,Margolick JB,Winkelstein JA,Bulkley GB

更新日期：1996-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was performed to identify risk factors affecting the fate of liver allografts transplanted across the ABO barrier. Over a 5-year period, 30 patients received 31 emergency OLTs with ABO-incompatible allografts. One-year graft and patient survival rates were 37.1% and 48.4%, respectively. This grou...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Lo CM,Shaked A,Busuttil RW

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00