Transplantation Immunology

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 1982 resident's essay award: the immunologic effects of lymphoid irradiation in human and non-human primates: cellular changes and the potential for renal transplantation. 
  • 27. Transplantation immunology: organ and bone marrow. 
  • A new look at blockade of T-cell costimulation: a therapeutic strategy for long-term maintenance immunosuppression. 
  • Accelerated rejection of skin grafts in recipients sensitized with extracted human histocompatibility antigens. 
  • Acute allograft rejection: cellular and humoral processes. 
  • Annual literature review for clinical transplants 2005. 
  • Anomalous MLR responsiveness among siblings. 
  • Anti-TCRβ mAb induces long-term allograft survival by reducing antigen-reactive T cells and sparing regulatory T cells. 
  • Bone marrow transplantation for non-malignant disease. 
  • Chronic rejection of mouse kidney allografts. 
  • Comparisons of mixed leukocyte reactions with skin graft survival in families genotyped for HL-A. 
  • Complement in clinical medicine. 
  • Complement-mediated vasoconstriction and graft rejection. 
  • Composite tissue transplantation: a rapidly advancing field. 
  • Developmental exposure to noninherited maternal antigens induces CD4+ T regulatory cells: relevance to mechanism of heart allograft tolerance. 
  • Effector CD4+ T cells, the cytokines they generate, and GVHD: something old and something new. 
  • Effects of neoplasms on inflammation: depression of macrophage accumulation after tumor implantation. 
  • Embryonic development of human transplantation antigens. 
  • Evidence for an immune barrier after in utero hematopoietic-cell transplantation. 
  • Exfoliative cytopathologic studies in organ transplantation. 3. The cytologic profile of urine during acute renal allograft rejection. 
  • Gamma-irradiation reduces the allogenicity of donor corneas. 
  • Gene therapy and transplantation--a brief review. 
  • Graft donor selection based upon single locus (haplotype) analysis within families. 
  • Graft hyporeactivity induced by immature donor-derived dendritic cells. 
  • HLA-C disparity between patients and unrelated donors matched for HLA-A, -B, and -DRB1 alleles: impact of serological vs. DNA typing for HLA-A and -B loci. 
  • Hand transplantation in the United States: experience with 3 patients. 
  • Humoral Compensation after Bortezomib Treatment of Allosensitized Recipients. 
  • Immune deficiency and expanded population of granular lymphocytes after bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Immune mechanisms of lung allograft rejection. 
  • Immunogenetics of consanguineous allografts in man. I. Histocompatibility testing and skin allografts. 
  • Immunogenetics of consanguineous allografts in man. II. Correlation of renal allografting with HL-A genotyping. 
  • Immunologic considerations in composite tissue transplantation: overview. 
  • Immunologic risks of combined kidney-pancreas transplantation. 
  • Immunological mechanisms of allograft rejection. 
  • Immunological studies on eluates from human renal allografts. 
  • Immunology of transplantation in the central nervous system. 
  • Immunosuppressive protocols and immunological challenges related to hand transplantation. 
  • In memoriam. D. Bernard Amos April 16, 1923-May 15, 2003. 
  • Indications and donor selections for allogeneic stem cell transplantation in children with hematologic malignancies. 
  • Innate immunity influences long-term outcomes after human lung transplant. 
  • Longitudinal studies of a B cell-derived signature of tolerance in renal transplant recipients. 
  • Lymphodepletional strategies in transplantation. 
  • Memory T cells in organ transplantation: progress and challenges. 
  • Methods to prevent rejection of homografts in man: a report on living related kidney donor selection by HL-A genotyping. 
  • Mixed lymphocyte reactions and skin graft survival in an HL-A recombinant family. 
  • Mycophenolate mofetil reduces the risk of acute rejection less in African-American than in Caucasian kidney recipients. 
  • Non-anti-Gal alpha1-3Gal antibody mechanisms are sufficient to cause hyperacute lung dysfunction in pulmonary xenotransplantation. 
  • Organ donation and treatment of the multi-organ donor. 
  • Organ transplantation: what is the state of the art? 
  • Partially matched, nonmyeloablative allogeneic transplantation: clinical outcomes and immune reconstitution. 
  • Perioperative management of special populations: immunocompromised host (cancer, HIV, transplantation). 
  • Prevention of graft-versus-host disease while preserving graft-versus-leukemia effect after selective depletion of host-reactive T cells by photodynamic cell purging process. 
  • Pulmonary cryptococcosis in solid organ transplant recipients: clinical relevance of serum cryptococcal antigen. 
  • Pulmonary xenotransplantation: rapidly progressing into the unknown. 
  • Rejection of canine cardiac allografts. 
  • Renal allografts in HL-A matched recipients. Light, immunofluorescence and electron microscopic studies. 
  • Renal transplantation between HL-A haploidentical donor-recipient pairs: functional and morphological evaluation. 
  • Renal transplantation between histocompatible donor-recipient pairs. 
  • Selection of donors for kidney transplantation. 
  • Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation from donation after cardiac death: successful long-term outcomes. 
  • Skin graft rejection between subjects genotyped for HL-A. 
  • Squamous-cell carcinoma, Kaposi's sarcoma and Burkitt's lymphoma are consequences of impaired immune surveillance of ubiquitous viruses in acquired immune deficiency syndrome, allograft recipients and tropical African patients. 
  • Steps toward transplantation tolerance in the clinic. 
  • Summary of the proceedings of the second international workshop on transplantation genetics of nonhuman primates. 
  • T lymphocytes with a normal ADA gene accumulate after transplantation of transduced autologous umbilical cord blood CD34+ cells in ADA-deficient SCID neonates. 
  • The Art and Science of Immunosuppression: the Fifth Annual American Society of Transplant Surgeon's State-of-the-Art Winter Symposium. 
  • The future promises of xenotransplantation. 
  • The importance of class I and class II HLA in cadaveric renal transplantation. 
  • The need for inducing tolerance in vascularized composite allotransplantation. 
  • The role of B cells in solid organ transplantation. 
  • The role of antibodies in dysfunction of pig-to-baboon pulmonary transplants. 
  • The role of innate immunity in acute allograft rejection after lung transplantation. 
  • The role of irradiation in solid organ transplantation. 
  • The role of the thymus in immune reconstitution in aging, bone marrow transplantation, and HIV-1 infection. 
  • The role of therapeutic apheresis in high immunologic risk renal transplantation: a review of current trends. 
  • Thrombospondin-1 derived from APCs regulates their capacity for allosensitization. 
  • Tissue antigens of man and chimpanzees; their role in xenografting. 
  • Tolerance and the "Holy Grail" of transplantation. 
  • Tolerance mechanisms and recent progress. 
  • Transplantation immunology: solid organ and bone marrow. 
  • Transplantation in miniature swine. II. In vitro parameters of histocompatibility in MSLA homozygous minipigs. 
  • Transplanted carcinoma in an immunosuppressed patient. 
  • Umbilical cord stem cell transplantation. 
  • Unmanipulated or CD34 selected haplotype mismatched transplants. 
  • Vascularized composite allotransplantation research: the emerging field. 
  • Viral infection-homograft interactions in a murine model. 
  • Viral-induced CD28 loss evokes costimulation independent alloimmunity. 
  • What's new in transplantation. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Buckley, Rebecca Hatcher, James Buren Sidbury Professor of Pediatrics, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Chen, Jun, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Knechtle, Stuart Johnston, Mary and Deryl Hart Professor of Surgery, in the School of Medicine, Duke Clinical Research Institute
  • Lagoo, Anand Shreeram, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Murdoch, David Martin, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine