Sirolimus-based therapy for kidney transplantation from expanded criteria donors.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cyclosporine A (CsA)-induced chronic nephrotoxicity is characterized by renal dysfunction and interstitial fibrosis. Early and progressive renal macrophage influx, correlating with latter interstitial fibrotic areas, has been associated with CsA treatment. This study investigated the role of macrophages, the...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Carlos CP,Mendes GE,Miquelin AR,Luz MA,da Silva CG,van Rooijen N,Coimbra TM,Burdmann EA

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) has an incidence of 43% at 8 years after heart transplantation with extremely limited treatment options and unclear pathogenesis. CAV constitutes a significant complication that limits the long-term survival of heart recipients. Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) is ass...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Aharinejad S,Salama M,Rödler S,Ehrlich M,Zuckermann A,Laufer G

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective review of fifty heart, lung, and heart-lung recipients receiving cyclosporine, forty-six (92%) were hypertensive. This hypertension was managed with either prazosin (n = 29) or nifedipine (n = 17). Renal function was assessed by creatinine clearance estimation and found to be significantly better in...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Kirk AJ,Omar I,Bateman DN,Dark JH

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of bile ducts is a characteristic feature of chronic rejection in the liver allograft (also known as irreversible rejection and vanishing bile-duct syndrome). Typically, this occurs as a progressive lesion resulting in irreversible damage and graft failure requiring retransplantation. In this study, we describe 6...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Hubscher SG,Buckels JA,Elias E,McMaster P,Neuberger J

更新日期：1991-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Neuromuscular blockade (NMB) reversal with neostigmine and glycopyrrolate has been reported to cause cardiac arrest in patients with a history of cardiac transplantation. The purpose of this study was to examine the safety of NMB reversal with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and muscarinic anticholinergics i...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Barbara DW,Christensen JM,Mauermann WJ,Dearani JA,Hyder JA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In an attempt to reduce chronic calcineurin inhibitor induced allograft nephropathy in first cadaver and human leukocyte antigen non-identical living-donor renal transplantation, sirolimus (Siro) or mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) was tested as adjunctive therapy, with planned dose reductions of tacrolimus (Tacr...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Ciancio G,Burke GW,Gaynor JJ,Mattiazzi A,Roth D,Kupin W,Nicolas M,Ruiz P,Rosen A,Miller J

更新日期：2004-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin (EPO) is widely used among patients with end-stage renal disease awaiting transplantation. Data suggest that EPO therapy may be immunomodulatory. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of pretransplant EPO therapy on renal allograft outcome. We evaluated 120 consecutive renal transplant rec...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Vasquez EM,Pollak R

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats have decreased guanylate cyclase (EC 4.6.1.2) activity in liver and other tissues which was returned to normal by the administration of exogenous insulin. Since successful pancreatic islet transplants have been shown to lower basal hepatic gluco...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Vesely DL,Selawry H,Levey GS

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Th (T helper) 1/Th2 balance in response to signals given during donor antigen presentation, induction of allograft prolongation is more often related to Th2-type than with Th1-type immunity. Here, we examined the effect of interleukin (IL)-33, a novel member of the IL-1 family, on cardiac allograft surviv...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Yin H,Li XY,Jin XB,Zhang BB,Gong Q,Yang H,Zheng F,Gong FL,Zhu JY

更新日期：2010-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:En bloc pediatric kidney transplants (EBPKT) are still a subject of controversy. The aim of this study was to determine whether acceptable long-term graft survival and function can be achieved in EBPKT compared with the transplant of single, cadaveric, adult donor kidneys. METHODS:A retrospective review was...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Sánchez-Fructuoso AI,Prats D,Pérez-Contín MJ,Marques M,Torrente J,Conesa J,Grimalt J,Del Rio F,Núñez JR,Barrientos A

更新日期：2003-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cold ischemia-reperfusion injury is unavoidable during organ transplantation, and prolonged preservation is associated with poorer function recovery. Cardiotrophin-1 (CT-1) is an IL-6 family cytokine with cytoprotective properties. This preclinical study in rats tested whether CT-1 mitigates cold renal ische...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： García-Cenador B,Blanco-Gozalo V,López-Montañés D,Sanz Giménez-Rico JR,López-Novoa JM,López-Hernández FJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary malignant liver tumor. Currently, liver transplantation may be the optimal treatment for HCC in cirrhotic patients. Patient selection is currently based on tumor size. We developed a program to offer liver transplantation to selected patients with HCC...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Victor DW 3rd,Monsour HP Jr,Boktour M,Lunsford K,Balogh J,Graviss EA,Nguyen DT,McFadden R,Divatia MK,Heyne K,Ankoma-Sey V,Egwim C,Galati J,Duchini A,Saharia A,Mobley C,Gaber AO,Ghobrial RM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of Ia antigens on leukoagglutinin-induced blast cells was studied using a sensitive protein A-rosetting technique and quantitative absorption with conventional and monoclonal Ia antibodies. By direct testing, 40 to 60% of CBA (Iak) blast cells were shown to be Ia+ (Iak+, Ia.17+, and Ias-), expressing bo...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Michaelides M,McKenzie IF

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Southeastern Regional Organ Procurement Program has developed a computerized system for the selection of organ transplant recipients. This system has proven to be a useful method for the rapid selection of histocompatible recipients for organ transplants from a large pool of potential recipients in a wide geograp...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Stulting RD,Ward FE

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential usefulness of verapamil, a calcium channel blocker to renal allograft preservation, was investigated using the isolated perfused rat kidney. Two models of ischemic injury were used. In the first model, rat kidneys were exposed to 40 min of 37 degrees C ischemia on the perfusion circuit. Addition of verap...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Shapiro JI,Cheung C,Itabashi A,Chan L,Schrier RW

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When normal mice are exposed for short periods to ultraviolet light (UV), they support the progressive growth of transplanted syngeneic UV-induced tumors. Normal nonirradiated mice almost always reject these tumor implants. The UV-mediated suppression of the antitumor response can be adoptively transferred to normal s...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Spellman CW,Daynes RA

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments have been carried out to investigate whether the continued survival of rat kidney allografts induced by two different methods-namely, immunological enhancement or a limited course of drug treatment with cyclosporine or cyclophosphamide, is maintained by similar mechanisms. (AS X AUG)F1 or AUG strain kidney...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Chui YL,Batchelor JR

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) represents a double-edged sword. In its nonsevere form, cGVHD associates with better control of the malignant disease, thus highlighting graft-versus-leukemia effects. However, severe cGVHD leads to debilitating morbidity and increased nonrelapse mortality. The predi...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Giesen N,Schwarzbich MA,Dischinger K,Becker N,Hummel M,Benner A,Radujkovic A,Müller-Tidow C,Dreger P,Luft T

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Apoptosis is a well-documented pathway for islet cell death. One potential mechanism is overexpression of death-promoting Bax compared with antiapoptotic Bcl-2 in islets. METHODS:We isolated islets from 10 human pancreata and measured the expression of Bax mRNA and Bcl-2 mRNA by real-time quantitative polym...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Thomas D,Yang H,Boffa DJ,Ding R,Sharma VK,Lagman M,Li B,Hering B,Mohanakumar T,Lakey J,Kapur S,Hancock WW,Suthanthiran M

更新日期：2002-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term graft survival is mainly influenced by early graft rejection and posttransplant graft function. The ability of both complement-dependent cytotoxicity cross-match (CDC) and flow cytometry cross-match (FCXM) to predict acute rejection episodes has been evaluated by cross-matching 40 patients who received cadav...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Utzig MJ,Blümke M,Wolff-Vorbeck G,Lang H,Kirste G

更新日期：1997-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Organ donors are frequently trauma victims, but the impact of donor hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation (HSR) on pulmonary graft function has not been assessed. L-arginine treatment during reperfusion increases the production of endothelial nitric oxide and thus ameliorates ischemia-reperfusion injury. Objec...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Preissler G,Löhe F,Ebersberger U,Huff I,Bittmann I,Messmer K,Jauch KW,Angele MK

更新日期：2009-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Allograft rejection continues to be the most common cause of graft failure in technically successful pancreas transplants. Early diagnosis and treatment of rejection is essential for long-term graft survival. Pancreas graft biopsies are now used routinely for the diagnosis of acute allograft rejection. The c...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Papadimitriou JC,Drachenberg CB,Wiland A,Klassen DK,Fink J,Weir MR,Cangro C,Schweitzer EJ,Bartlett ST

更新日期：1998-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:KM2210, a conjugate of estradiol and chlorambucil (CBL), which was originally developed as an anti-breast cancer agent, inhibits proliferative response of human mononuclear cells to alloantigens in mixed lymphocyte culture in a dose-dependent manner, but has no effect on their response to phytohemagglutinin. Neither e...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Matsudaira T,Kodo H,Okamoto S,Tani K,Tojo A,Ozawa K,Asano K,Asano S

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graft pancreatitis and allograft rejection were both accompanied by increased serum levels of immunoreactive anionic trypsin (irAT) in a porcine pancreatic allograft transplantation model. Characterization of this immunoreactivity by gel filtration revealed different elution profiles in these conditions that can be he...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Källén R,Borgström A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) remains the gold standard for acute cellular rejection (ACR) diagnosis in cardiac transplantation yet is subject to interobserver variability. A method that could avoid discordant EMB analysis would be desirable. The apoptosis rate in EMB correlates with ACR severity. Apollon inhi...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Aharinejad S,Andrukhova O,Gmeiner M,Thomas A,Krenn K,Zuckermann A,Grimm M

更新日期：2010-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiogenesis contributes to the repair process after renal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. In the present study, we tested the role of miR-21 in the angiogenesis induced by hypoxia inducible factor (HIF)-1α through inhibiting a predicted target gene thrombospondin 1 (TSP-1). METHODS:To stabilize HIF-1α, ...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Xu X,Song N,Zhang X,Jiao X,Hu J,Liang M,Teng J,Ding X

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of pathogenic antibodies for autoimmune diseases illuminated the biologic relevance of B cells, plasma cells, and pathogenic antibodies in autoimmunity. They have also rejuvenated interest in how B cells mediate multiple effector functions that include antibody production, antigen presentation to T cells,...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Jordan SC,Ammerman N,Choi J,Huang E,Peng A,Sethi S,Najjar R,Toyoda M,Lim K,Louie S,Vo A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two side effects of irradiation are premature ovarian failure (POF) and osteoporosis, both of which are concerns not only clinically, for patients, but also experimentally, for animals. We examine whether bone marrow transplantation (BMT) can correct the POF induced by radiation and also address whether allo...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Feng W,Cui Y,Zhan H,Shi M,Cui W,Guo K,Li Q,Song C,Zhang Y,Mori T,Gershwin ME,Abraham NG,Ikehara S

更新日期：2010-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Organ transplantation has been successfully practiced for decades, but the outcome of cell transplantation remains disappointing. This is the case in animal models; liver allografts in mice are spontaneously accepted without requirement of immunosuppression, whereas hepatocyte transplants in the same combina...

journal_title：Transplantation

authors： Jiang G,Yang HR,Wang L,Wildey GM,Fung J,Qian S,Lu L

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00