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Manikwar P, Kiptoo P, Badawi AH, Büyüktimkin B, Siahaan TJ. Antigen-specific blocking of CD4-specific immunological synapse formation using BPI and current therapies for autoimmune diseases. Med Res Rev 2012; 32:727-64. [PMID: 21433035 PMCID: PMC4441537 DOI: 10.1002/med.20243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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In this review, we discuss T-cell activation, etiology, and the current therapies of autoimmune diseases (i.e., MS, T1D, and RA). T-cells are activated upon interaction with antigen-presenting cells (APC) followed by a "bull's eye"-like formation of the immunological synapse (IS) at the T-cell-APC interface. Although the various disease-modifying therapies developed so far have been shown to modulate the IS and thus help in the management of these diseases, they are also known to present some undesirable side effects. In this study, we describe a novel and selective way to suppress autoimmunity by using a bifunctional peptide inhibitor (BPI). BPI uses an intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1)-binding peptide to target antigenic peptides (e.g., proteolipid peptide, glutamic acid decarboxylase, and type II collagen) to the APC and therefore modulate the immune response. The central hypothesis is that BPI blocks the IS formation by simultaneously binding to major histocompatibility complex-II and ICAM-1 on the APC and selectively alters the activation of T cells from T(H)1 to T(reg) and/or T(H)2 phenotypes, leading to tolerance.
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- Prakash Manikwar
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KA 66047, USA
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Saldanha De Almeida CE, Artigiani R, Ferreira De Oliveira K, Riboli Navarro PG, Montero EFDS. Late transplantation period of mice fetal intestine grafts: morphometric aspects. Microsurgery 2007; 27:282-5. [PMID: 17477410 DOI: 10.1002/micr.20356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Morphometric evaluation of the fetal intestinal graft in the late post-transplant period was done by using C57BL/6 mice. Under anesthesia, after hysterotomy, a transversal laparotomy was done in the fetus to harvest all intestines. Grafts, cleaned from its mesentery, and divided were transplanted into the preperitoneum space, from male mice, C57BL/6 strain. Thirty days after, mice were killed, and the graft was analyzed with HE stain and S-100 protein. All grafts as well as fetal and adult intestines were evaluated as controls. All developed grafts showed muscular layer and positivity for S-100 protein as the adult intestines. The goblet cells, absent in fetal intestines, were in larger number in isogeneic grafts than in adult intestines, even with lower villus. These findings showed sharp progress of the isogeneic graft from fetal to adult intestine, suggesting that they can be viable and might be functionally appropriate in the late period after transplantation.
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de Almeida CES, de Oliveira KF, Manna MCB, Artigiani R, Koike MK, Montero EFDS. Murine fetal small-intestine grafts: morphometric and immunohistochemical evaluation. Microsurgery 2006; 26:61-4. [PMID: 16444724 DOI: 10.1002/micr.20213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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We investigated histopathological changes following murine fetal intestinal transplantation. Fetal intestine, obtained from a pregnant C57BL/6 mouse, was transplanted into BALB/c and C57Bl/6 mice. Recipients were divided into three groups: isogeneic, and allogeneic treated with 3 mg/kg/day gangliosides (Allo-a) or 9 mg/kg/day (Allo-b). One week after transplant, all grafts showed good viability, confirmed by cellular mitosis in the mucosa and a well-defined propria muscular layer. Isogeneic grafts showed a thicker muscular layer than in the Allo-a (P = 0.02) and Allo-b (P = 0.004) groups. There was no difference in number of mitotic cells among groups. Goblet cells were significantly reduced in allografts treated with 3 mg gangliosides (P = 0.013) or 9 mg gangliosides (P = 0.002) compared to isografts. Villi height was similar in all studied groups. There was no difference in positivity of the enteric nervous system among groups. Atrophy was more common in the allogeneic groups, suggesting that isografts had better development than allografts treated with gangliosides. (
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Lee KD, Yamataka A, Kato Y, Kobayashi H, Lane GJ, Maeda K, Kojima Y, Sueyoshi N, Miyano T. Graft serosectomy in adult small bowel transplantation without vascular reconstruction in rats improves graft survival by induction of vascular endothelial growth factor. J Pediatr Surg 2005; 40:1881-6. [PMID: 16338311 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2005.08.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess whether adult small bowel grafts (ASBGs) can survive transplantation without vascular reconstruction if graft serosectomy (SS) is performed. METHODS Syngeneic ASBG transplants were performed in 85 Lewis rats. The entire serosa was removed just before transplantation in the SS group (n = 50) and left intact in the nonserosectomy group (n = 35). Transplanted ASBG was harvested 1, 3, 5, 7, 14, 21, or 28 days after transplantation and studied using staining with hematoxylin-eosin, immunohistochemistry for protein gene product 9.5, S-100, CD34 and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and quantification of VEGF messenger RNA (mRNA). Adult small bowel graft viability was assessed blindly using a mucosal surface expansion score (0, no mucosa; 1, mucosa on one fourth of graft; 2, mucosa on one half of graft; 3, mucosa on three fourths of graft; and 4, circumferential mucosa on graft). RESULTS No rejection was identified in any ASBG. Average mucosal surface expansion score and VEGF mRNA expression were significantly higher in the SS group (both P < .01). Vascular endothelial growth factor protein was detected in enterocytes from day 3 posttransplant in the SS group. Distribution of protein gene product 9.5 and S-100 was normal in SS-group ASBG. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that SS allows VEGF mRNA and, subsequently, VEGF protein in ASBG to be induced very soon after transplantation, which may contribute to the survival of ASBG transplanted without vascular reconstruction.
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- Kyeong Deok Lee
- Department of Pediatric General and Urogenital Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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Tahara K, Murakami T, Fujishiro J, Takahashi M, Inoue S, Hashizume K, Matsuno K, Kobayashi E. Regeneration of the rat neonatal intestine in transplantation. Ann Surg 2005; 242:124-32. [PMID: 15973110 PMCID: PMC1357713 DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000168089.64630.94] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Based on development of stem cell technology, newborn tissue, even undergoing cryopreservation, possesses promising potential as a donor source in the field of organ transplantation. However, the precise regeneration processes remains unclear. This study was designed to investigate the regenerative potential of newborn intestine with or without cryopreservation in the transplantation. METHODS Newborn rat intestines with or without cryopreservation were transplanted subcutaneously into the syngeneic host, and specimens were evaluated by histology, multiple immunostaining, and comprehensive gene expression analysis. RESULTS We determined that newborn rat intestine possessed regenerative potential in the syngeneic host even after cryopreservation, where angiogenesis was induced early in the submucosa with subsequent maturation in the crypts. Furthermore, newborn intestinal graft could facilitate the survival of maturation-incompetent 10-day-old graft that lacked regenerating activity (P < 0.01, n = 13). Tissue aggregates from the maturation-incompetent graft underwent reconstitution of their histologic configuration in the presence of newborn intestinal aggregates. Comprehensive gene expression analysis showed that 37 genes were preferentially up-regulated, while 19 genes were down-regulated in the regenerating 10-day-old graft (supported by the newborn graft). CONCLUSIONS Regeneration of newborn intestine is implicated in neo-angiogenesis in the host, and the newborn intestinal graft is capable of mediating the survival of the maturation-incompetent 10-day-old graft. Notwithstanding ethical and legal limitations in the clinic, these results may provide new insights into the regenerative role of newborn grafts.
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- Kazunori Tahara
- Division of Organ Replacement Research, Center for Molecular Medicine, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan
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Kato Y, Yamataka A, Miyahara K, Sueyoshi N, Hayakawa J, Hayashida M, Migita M, Shimada T, Kobayashi H, Lane GJ, Miyano T. Recipient non-hematopoietic bone marrow cells in the intestinal graft after fetal small intestinal transplantation. Pediatr Surg Int 2004; 20:1-4. [PMID: 14758492 DOI: 10.1007/s00383-003-1075-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We examined whether non-hematopoietic BM cells can migrate into the intestinal graft after fetal small intestinal transplantation (FSITx). Fetal small intestine from donor C57BL/6 mice was transplanted into the rectus abdominis of recipient C57BL/6 mice with only green fluorescent protein (GFP) BM cells (syngeneic FSITx). Intestinal grafts were harvested on days 5, 10, and 30 after FSITx and stained immunohistochemically using anti-CD45 antibody (a marker for hematopoietic BM cells). Although there were no GFP-positive cells identified in the epithelium of the graft intestinal villi, there were a few cells positive for both GFP and CD45 in the lamina propria on day 5 after FSITx, and many present on days 10 and 30. In some grafts there were only cells that were GFP positive/CD45 negative (i.e., non-hematopoietic BM cells) found in the lamina propria on days 10 and 30. These data indicate that non-hematopoietic BM cells as well as hematopoietic BM cells can migrate from the recipient's bone marrow, suggesting that recipient mesenchymal stem cells may be strongly implicated in graft regeneration and development after FSITx.
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- Yoshifumi Kato
- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8421, Tokyo, Japan.
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Resende VCL, Montero EFDS, Leão JQDS, Manna MCB, Koike MK, Pedrosa ME, Simões MDJ. Morphological changes on small-bowel fetal allografts in mice. Microsurgery 2003; 23:526-9. [PMID: 14558016 DOI: 10.1002/micr.10162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the early morphological development and acute rejection process in fetal intestine allografts. Grafts from C57BL/6 fetal intestines were implanted in an avascular form in BALB/C recipients. A syngeneic group of animals was used to compare the evolution. The allogeneic recipients were distributed in 6 groups, according to the day of sacrifice (3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 10th postoperational day (POD)) and the control group on the 2nd, 5th, and 7th POD. These grafts were stained with hematoxylin and eosin for histological evaluation, in agreement with the classification of Auber et al. (Chirurgie 123:122-130, 1998). Data showed a progressive development of the graft until POD 5. On POD 3 and 4, a top grade of development and an initial rejection were observed. From POD 5-7 and on POD 10, the acute rejection reaction was more important than the development process. The higher level of rejection was observed on POD 10, and it was similar to the 7th POD. Our results showed good graft development until POD 5. After that, the acute rejection response impeded analysis of the development process.
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- Vanessa Contato Lopes Resende
- Disciplina de Técnica Operatória e Cirurgia Experimental, Departamento de Cirurgia, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Sillerud LO, Burks EJ, Wester MJ, Brown DC, Vijayan S, Larson RS. NMR-derived model of interconverting conformations of an ICAM-1 inhibitory cyclic nonapeptide. THE JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE RESEARCH : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PEPTIDE SOCIETY 2003; 62:97-116. [PMID: 12895272 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3011.2003.00070.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We have produced by phage-display a disulfide-linked cyclic nonapeptide (inhibitory peptide-01, IP01), CLLRMRSIC, that binds to intracellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and blocks binding to its counter-structure, leukocyte functional antigen-1 (LFA-1). As a first step towards improving its pharmacologic properties, we have performed a structural and functional analysis of this peptide inhibitor to determine the features relevant to ICAM-1 binding. We report here the solution model of our initial product, IP01, as derived from two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) restraints and molecular modeling. Distance and dihedral angle restraints, generated from nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (NOESY) and one-dimensional-NMR experiments respectively, were used to generate an ensemble of structures using distance geometry and simulated annealing. Molecular dynamic simulations produced three interconverting conformational families consistent with the NMR-derived constraints. We describe these conformations and their mechanism of interconversion. Furthermore, we have measured the IC50 s of a series of inhibitors generated from IP01 through alanine substitution of each residue. These results show that the L2-L3-R4-M5-R6 segment is functionally active, conformationally flexible, and contains a beta-turn involving residues R4-S7, while the C1-C9-I8-S7 segment is less functionally-active but adopts a more defined solution conformation, consistent with a scaffolding function. This model will be useful for designing nonpeptide-based organic inhibitors with improved pharmacologic properties.
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- L O Sillerud
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
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Fujimura Y, Owen RL. Tacrolimus (FK506) and cyclosporine reduce the uptake and transport of particles into rabbit Peyer's patches. Transplantation 2002; 73:1049-54. [PMID: 11965030 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200204150-00006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Tacrolimus (FK) and cyclosporine (Cs) are potent immunosuppressants that effectively prevent the rejection of transplanted organs including liver and small intestine. Our study examined the effects of these immunosuppressants on Peyer's patches, which play an important role in mucosal immune response through uptake and transport of enteric microorganisms and macromolecules in the gut-associated lymphoid tissues. After administration of FK and Cs, we assessed changes in lymphoid follicle structure and quantified the uptake and transport of particles in the follicle associated epithelium (FAE) including M cells, using fluorescent latex microspheres in rabbit Peyer's patches. Rabbits, five in each group, received oral administration of FK (3.2 mg/kg), Cs (10 mg/kg), or phosphate-buffered saline daily for 7 days. After 2 days of withdrawal, rabbits were anesthetized, and received injections with 2 ml of the suspension of 0.5-microm fluorescent microspheres (1010/ml) into ligated intestinal segments containing Peyer's patches. After 2 hr of gentle agitation, segments were removed, rinsed, fixed with periodate-lysine-2% paraformaldehyde, frozen, and sections were stained with fluorescent phalloidin to label brush border actin filaments. The size of the lymphoid follicles in each group was measured under a light microscope. The number of microspheres in follicles was assessed in graphically defined areas of follicles from each group. In addition, immunohistochemical analysis of CD43 and MHC-II positive cells in FAE of lymphoid follicles of each group was performed. FK and Cs significantly reduced the height of lymphoid domes and the height and width of follicles, as compared to those of controls. In both FK and Cs groups, the numbers of microspheres that adhered, were taken up and were transported into lymphoid follicles were smaller than in controls, indicating that their movement rates into deep layers were markedly reduced. Furthermore, FK and Cs reduced the mean numbers of CD43 and MHC-II positive cells in FAE per unit area (mm2) as compared with controls. These findings suggest that FK and Cs may produce immunosuppressive effects, at least in part, through reduction of the uptake and transport of particles into Peyer's patches, and by reduction of the number of immunoreactive cells in FAE of Peyer's patches.
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- Yoshinori Fujimura
- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama 701-0192 Japan
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Katz SM, Bennett F, Stecker K, Clark JH, Pham T, Wang ME, Kahan BD, Stepkowski SM. ICAM-1 antisense oligodeoxynucleotide improves islet allograft survival and function. Cell Transplant 2000; 9:817-28. [PMID: 11202568 DOI: 10.1177/096368970000900608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and its ligand, leukocyte function antigen-1 (LFA-1), after pancreatic islet transplantation may affect both nonspecific and alloantigen-specific phases of graft destruction. We examined the effects of ICAM-1/LFA-1 blockade on the survival of islet allografts. Fresh C57BL/10 (H2h) pancreatic islets were transplanted under the renal subcapsular space (KC) or embolized into the liver after portal vein (PV) injection to C3H (H2k) mice. Recipients remained untreated or were treated for 7 days by i.p. administration of: ICAM-1 antisense phosphorothioate oligodeoxynucleotide (oligo) alone; anti-1CAM-1 (alphaICAM-1) monoclonal antibody (mAb) alone: alphaLFA-1 mAb alone; ICAM-1 oligo/alphaLFA mAb combination; alphaICAM-1 mAb/alphaLFA-1 mAb combination; or control oligo IP-8997 or IP-1082. In some experiments, donors were pretreated with ICAM-1 oligo. Inhibition of single ligand with 5.0 mg/kg ICAM-1 oligo (25.1 +/- 10.3), 100 microg/daily alphaICAM-1 mAb (24.2 +/- 8.0 days), or 50 microg/daily alphaLFA-1 mAb (42.8 +/- 25.9 days) prolonged the survivals of KC islet allografts in comparison with untreated controls (11.9 +/- 1.0 days; all p < 0.01). However, dual ICAM-1/LFA-1 blockade with either ICAM-1 oligo/alphaLFA-1 mAb (78.3 +/- 16.5 days) or (alphaICAM-1 mAb/aLFA-1 mAb (65.2 +/- 31.3 days) was the most effective therapy. Although pretreatment of donors with ICAM-1 oligo alone was ineffective (12.2 +/- 0.8 days; NS), a combination of donor pretreatment and recipient treatment started 1 day prior to grafting with ICAM-1 oligo (39.2 +/- 14.0 days) was more effective than the recipient treatment alone (24.6 +/- 8.8 days). Furthermore, ICAM-1/LFA-1 blockade improved islet function as evaluated by glucose tolerance test, and decreased inflammation in comparison with untreated controls. Similar in vivo results were obtained following PV administration of islet allografts. Thus, ICAM-1/LFA-1 blockade prolongs the survival of pancreatic islet allografts and improves their early function.
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- S M Katz
- Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 77030, USA.
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Sarnacki S, Auber F, Crétolle C, Camby C, Cavazzana-Calvo M, Müller W, Wagner N, Brousse N, Révillon Y, Fischer A, Cerf-Bensussan N. Blockade of the integrin alphaLbeta2 but not of integrins alpha4 and/or beta7 significantly prolongs intestinal allograft survival in mice. Gut 2000; 47:97-104. [PMID: 10861270 PMCID: PMC1727965 DOI: 10.1136/gut.47.1.97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND Small bowel transplantation remains a difficult therapeutic option endangered by a high rate of rejection and infectious complications. To improve these clinical results, it is mandatory to set up animal models to test alternative immunosuppressive regimens which may lead to immunotolerance. AIMS To determine the value of blockade of alphaLbeta2 (LFA-1) and alpha4 and beta7 integrins (alpha4beta1, alpha4beta7, and alphaEbeta7) in the prevention of rejection of fetal small bowel grafts in mice and the effect of the association of calcineurin dependent drugs in anti-LFA-1 treated mice. METHODS Adult recipient mice engrafted with allogeneic fetal small bowel received a short course of anti-alpha4 and/or anti-LFA-1 monoclonal antibodies (mAb) with or without FK506 or cyclosporin A. In addition, in a set of experiment, beta7-/- mice were used as recipients. Graft biopsies were performed and processed for standard histology. RESULTS Blockade of the pathways of the integrins alpha4 and beta7 had a modest or no effect on intestinal graft survival. In contrast, transitory, short administration of anti-LFA-1 monoclonal antibody alone, when started before engraftment (day -1), allowed long term survival of intestinal grafts, even when associated with calcineurin dependent drugs. However, early withdrawal of FK506 reversed the immunosuppressive effect of anti-LFA-1 treatment. CONCLUSION These results suggest that firstly, anti-LFA-1, but not anti-alpha4 mAb treatment, may be useful in improving the results of intestinal transplantation, and secondly, that this treatment is not incompatible with long term administration of tacrolimus currently used in the prevention of small bowel graft rejection in humans.
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- S Sarnacki
- Service de Chirurgie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Necker Enfants-Malades, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75743 Paris Cedex 15, France
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Orloff SL, Yin Q, Corless CL, Orloff MS, Rabkin JM, Wagner CR. Tolerance induced by bone marrow chimerism prevents transplant vascular sclerosis in a rat model of small bowel transplant chronic rejection. Transplantation 2000; 69:1295-303. [PMID: 10798744 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200004150-00015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND The major impediment to success in solid organ transplantation is chronic rejection (CR). The characteristic lesion of CR is transplant vascular sclerosis (TVS). Although the mechanism of TVS is thought to have an immunologic basis, in humans immunosuppression does not prevent or reverse it. One possible therapy to prevent TVS is induction of donor-specific tolerance. Bone marrow chimerism has been successful in inducing tolerance in acute and chronic rejection heart and kidney transplant models. The highly immunogenic small bowel (SB) allograft provides a rigorous test of the efficacy of this tolerance regimen. We examined whether induction of tolerance by bone marrow chimerism could prevent TVS in a model of Fisher 344 (F344) to Lewis (LEW) rat SB transplantation. METHODS Bone marrow chimeras (BMC) were created by transplantation of T-cell-depleted F344 bone marrow into irradiated LEW rats. Chimerism was assessed by flow cytometric method. F344 SB, heterotopically transplanted into the chimeras, was clinically and histologically assessed for CR. F344 SB grafts, transplanted into cyclosporine-A-treated LEW recipients, served as control grafts for CR. RESULTS Cyclosporine-A-treated LEW rats chronically rejected F344 SB grafts. By contrast, the BMC group demonstrated tolerance and had long-term SB graft survival (>120 days) without TVS. The BMC demonstrated immunocompetence by prompt rejection of third party ACI (RT1av1) SB allografts. CONCLUSIONS Bone marrow chimerism prevents chronic graft failure secondary to TVS in a model of chronic SB rejection. TVS fails to develop when tolerance is established, suggesting that the mechanisms involved in TVS are, in part, immunologically mediated.
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- S L Orloff
- Department of Surgery, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oregon, USA
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Nicolls MR, Coulombe M, Yang H, Bolwerk A, Gill RG. Anti-LFA-1 therapy induces long-term islet allograft acceptance in the absence of IFN-gamma or IL-4. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 164:3627-34. [PMID: 10725719 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.7.3627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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mAb therapy directed against a variety of cell surface accessory molecules has been effectively utilized to prolong allograft acceptance in various models of tissue and organ transplantation. The purpose of this study was to determine whether transient therapy directed against the adhesion molecule LFA-1 (CD11a) was sufficient to induce donor-specific tolerance to pancreatic islet allografts. Anti-LFA-1 monotherapy was found to be efficacious in inducing long-term islet allograft acceptance in multiple donor-recipient strain combinations. Graft acceptance following anti-LFA-1 therapy was not simply due to clonal ignorance of donor Ags in that the majority of recipients bearing established islet allografts resisted rejection induced by immunization with donor-type APCs. Furthermore, donor-specific tolerance from anti-LFA-1-treated animals could be transferred to secondary immune-deficient animals. Taken together, these results indicated that transient anti-LFA-1 monotherapy resulted in donor-specific tolerance. In vitro, functionally tolerant animals retained normal anti-donor reactivity as assessed by proliferative, cytotoxic, and cytokine release assays that demonstrated that tolerance was not secondary to general clonal deletion or anergy of donor-reactive T cells. Finally, anti-LFA-1 treatment was effective in both IL-4-deficient and IFN-gamma-deficient recipients, indicating that neither of these cytokines are universally required for allograft acceptance. These results suggest that anti-adhesion-based therapy can induce a nondeletional form of tolerance that is not overtly dependent on the prototypic Th1 and Th2 cytokines, IFN-gamma and IL-4, respectively, in contrast to results in other transplantation models.
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- M R Nicolls
- Division of Pulmonary Sciences, Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Health Sciences University, Denver, CO 80262, USA
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Uchida H, Kobayashi E, Ogino Y, Mizuta K, To H, Okabe R, Hashizume K, Fujimura A. Chronopharmacology of tacrolimus in rats: toxicity and efficacy in a mouse-to-rat intestinal transplant model and its pharmacokinetic profile. Transplant Proc 1999; 31:2751-3. [PMID: 10578276 DOI: 10.1016/s0041-1345(99)00552-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- H Uchida
- Division of Organ Replacement Research, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan
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Crétolle-Vastel C, Camby C, Cerf-Bensussan N, Cavazzana-Calvo M, Fischer A, Révillon Y, Sarnacki S. [Role of calcineurin-dependent drugs on the immunosuppressive effect induced by the anti-LFA-1 antibody in a fetal intestinal transplantation model in mice]. CHIRURGIE; MEMOIRES DE L'ACADEMIE DE CHIRURGIE 1999; 124:503-10. [PMID: 10615777 DOI: 10.1016/s0001-4001(00)88272-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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STUDY AIM We have previously demonstrated that anti-LFA-1 monoclonal antibody (mAb) can efficiently protect against rejection of small bowel allograft in a mouse model. The aim of the present work was to determine, in the same model, the optimum conditions for utilisation of anti-LFA-1 mAb and the effects of calcineurin-dependent drugs on the immunosuppression induced by anti-LFA-1 mAb treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Foetal small intestines of C57Bl/6 (H-2b) mice were transplanted into adult C3H/He (H-2k) mice. Recipients were treated with anti-LFA-1 mAb alone (with or without day-1 injection), or combined to cyclosporin (20 mg.kg-1.j-1 for 14 days), or to tacrolimus (1 mg.kg-1.j-1 from day 0 to day 7). Biopsies were performed after engraftment from day 5 to day 30. RESULTS Administration of anti-LFA-1 mAb alone is sufficient to induce significant prolongation of intestinal allograft survival, provided that the treatment starts one day before engraftment. This tolerogenic effect is reversed by the transitory administration of tacrolimus (p = 0.008). CONCLUSION Treatment with anti-LFA-1 mAb has to be started before the allogeneic response has begun. Calcineurin-dependent drugs can modulate the tolerogenic effect induced by anti-LFA-1. A transgenic mice model should give precise details about underlying mechanisms of these interactions, before a possible utilisation of anti-LFA-1 mAb in intestinal transplantation in humans.
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- C Crétolle-Vastel
- Service de chirurgie pédiatrique, hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France
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Facilitation of solid organ and cell transplantation depends on metabolic and immunologic factors that can be manipulated ex vivo and in vivo using gene transfer technology. Vectors have been developed which can optimally transfer relevant genes to various tissues and organs. Interventions aimed at promoting tissue preservation before transplantation, prevention of oxidative stress and immunological rejection have recently become attractive options using viral and nonviral gene delivery vehicles. Further understanding of the mechanisms involved in tolerance induction as well as the facilitation of xenogeneic engraftment have made possible a variety of avenues that can be exploited using gene transfer technology.
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- N Giannoukakis
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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Gürsoy RN, Jois DS, Siahaan TJ. Structural recognition of an ICAM-1 peptide by its receptor on the surface of T cells: conformational studies of cyclo (1, 12)-Pen-Pro-Arg-Gly-Gly-Ser-Val-Leu-Val-Thr-Gly-Cys-OH. THE JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE RESEARCH : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PEPTIDE SOCIETY 1999; 53:422-31. [PMID: 10406220 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3011.1999.00080.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The purpose of this study is to elucidate the solution conformation of cyclic peptide 1 (cIBR), cyclo (1, 12)-Pen1-Pro2-Arg3-Gly4-Gly5-Ser6-Val7-Leu8-V al9-Thr10-Gly11-Cys12-OH, using NMR, circular dichroism (CD) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation experiments. cIBR peptide (1), which is derived from the sequence of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1, CD54), inhibits homotypic T-cell adhesion in vitro. The peptide hinders T-cell adhesion by inhibiting the leukocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1, CD11a/CD18) interaction with ICAM-1. Furthermore, Molt-3 T cells bind and internalize this peptide via cell surface receptors such as LFA-1. Peptide internalization by the LFA-1 receptor is one possible mechanism of inhibition of T-cell adhesion. The recognition of the peptide by LFA-1 is due to its sequence and conformation; therefore, this study can provide a better understanding for the conformational requirement of peptide-receptor interactions. The solution structure of 1 was determined using NMR, CD and MD simulation in aqueous solution. NMR showed a major and a minor conformer due to the presence of cis/trans isomerization at the X-Pro peptide bond. Because the contribution of the minor conformer is very small, this work is focused only on the major conformer. In solution, the major conformer shows a trans-configuration at the Pen1-Pro2 peptide bond as determined by HMQC NMR. The major conformer shows possible beta-turns at Pro2-Arg3-Gly4-Gly5, Gly5-Ser6-Val7-Leu8, and Val9-Thr10-Gly11-Cys12. The first beta-turn is supported by the ROE connectivities between the NH of Gly4 and the NH of Gly5. The connectivities between the NH of Ser6 and the NH of Val7, followed by the interaction between the amide protons of Val7 and Leu8, support the presence of the second beta-turn. Furthermore, the presence of a beta-turn at Val9-Thr10-Gly11-Cys12 is supported by the NH-NH connectivities between Thr10 and Gly11 and between Gly11 and Cys12. The propensity to form a type I beta-turn structure is also supported by CD spectral analysis. The cIBR peptide (1) shows structural similarity at residues Pro2 to Val7 with the same sequence in the X-ray structure of D1-domain of ICAM-1. The conformation of Pro2 to Val7 in this peptide may be important for its binding selectivity to the LFA-1 receptor.
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- R N Gürsoy
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, The University of Kansas, Lawrence 66047, USA
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Lane GJ, Yamataka A, Kato Y, Miyazaki E, Kobayashi H, Miyano T. Multiple bowel atresias after syngeneic fetal small bowel transplantation in rats. J Pediatr Surg 1998; 33:896-8. [PMID: 9660224 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3468(98)90669-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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PURPOSE The aim of this study was the assessment of atresia formation after syngeneic fetal small bowel transplantation (SBTx) to clarify its pathogenesis. METHODS Seventy Lewis rat fetuses (gestational age, 18 to 19 days) were obtained by hysterotomy, and a 30-mm long section of small bowel was excised from each fetus. Each bowel graft was then transplanted into the space between the peritoneum and the rectus abdominis in 70 adult Lewis rats to expose the grafts to ischemic stress. Transplantation was successful in 63 of 70 grafts (90%). Successfully transplanted bowel grafts were harvested for macroscopic and microscopic examination 10 days posttransplantation. RESULTS Of the successfully transplanted grafts, only two (3%) were atresia free; 127 atretic segments were found in the remaining 61 grafts. Twenty-four grafts (38%) had a single atresia comprised of membranous stenosis (MS) in two, membranous atresia (MA) in 10, and blind ends (BEs) with or without a connecting tissue remnant in 12. Thirty-seven grafts (59%) had multiple atresias, comprised of MS, MA, or both in six, BEs alone in seven, and a combination of BEs with MS or MA in 24. CONCLUSIONS Our model is the first to succeed in inducing experimentally membranous stenosis and a high incidence (59%) of multiple atresias. These results suggest that bowel ischemia is responsible for multiple bowel atresia formation.
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- G J Lane
- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Nathens AB, Rotstein OD, Jones JJ, Dackiw AP, Gorczynski R. The glutathione depleting agent diethylmaleate prolongs renal allograft survival. J Surg Res 1998; 77:75-9. [PMID: 9698537 DOI: 10.1006/jsre.1998.5338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1) plays an important role in mediating allograft rejection through its role in cellular trafficking and as an important costimulatory signal mediating T cell activation. We have previously reported that systemic administration of the glutathione (GSH) depleting agent diethylmaleate (DEM) prevents upregulation of ICAM-1 in various inflammatory models, suggesting that this agent may offer benefit in preventing allograft rejection. Thus we evaluated the effects of DEM in a murine model of renal transplantation. METHODS Kidneys from C57BL/6 mice were transplanted into MHC incompatible C3H mice. Donors were treated with DEM 1 h prior to sacrifice, whereas recipients received DEM 1 h following transplantation. Animals were followed until the time of death. In separate studies, renal ICAM-1 mRNA expression was evaluated by polymerase chain reaction and the CD4(+) T cell cytokine profile evaluated in a mixed lymphocyte reaction using C3H responder splenocytes and C57BL/6 stimulator cells. RESULTS Pretreatment with DEM increased survival from 18.9 +/- 3.6 to 30.6 +/- 10 days (P < 0.05). This increase in survival was associated with a reduction in renal ICAM-1 mRNA expression. Mixed lymphocyte cultures derived from animals pretreated with DEM demonstrated a reduction in the Th1 cytokines IFN-gamma and IL-2 and an increase in the Th2 cytokines IL-4 and IL-10. CONCLUSION Administration of DEM with consequent systemic GSH depletion significantly reduces allograft ICAM-1 expression and prolongs graft survival. Although speculative, a shift from a Th1 to a Th2 cytokine response raises the possibility that tolerance induction plays a role in prolonged allograft survival.
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- A B Nathens
- The Toronto Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 2C4, Canada
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Ohta Y, Gotoh M, Ohzato H, Fukuzaki T, Nishihara M, Dono K, Umeshita K, Sakon M, Yagita H, Okumura K, Tanaka T, Kawashima H, Miyasaka M, Monden M. Direct antigen presentation through binding of donor intercellular adhesion molecule-1 to recipient lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 molecules in xenograft rejection. Transplantation 1998; 65:1094-100. [PMID: 9583871 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199804270-00014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Cellular interactions that lead to graft rejection were examined in a rat-to-mouse xenogeneic combination using species-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against donor and recipient intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1) molecules, respectively. Although both mAbs displayed moderate blocking activity in an in vitro mixed lymphocyte response assay, strong suppression was observed when anti-donor (rat) ICAM-1 mAb was combined with anti-recipient (mouse) LFA-1 mAb. Likewise, significant prolongation of islet xenograft survival was observed with these mAbs. Thus, 0.05 mg of anti-mouse LFA-1 mAb and anti-rat ICAM-1 mAb given on days 0 and 1 produced significant prolongation of graft survival over the control (51+/-20 days vs. 10+/-3 days, P<0.0001), but not when anti-mouse ICAM-1 mAb was combined with anti-mouse LFA-1 mAb (13+/-3 days). In this species combination, mouse T cells were able to proliferate in the presence of rat antigen-presenting cells (APCs) in a cell number-dependent manner, but not in the presence of mouse APCs. The binding assay showed that LFA-1 molecules on mouse T cells can bind immobilized rat ICAM-1 molecules. These results suggest that rat ICAM-1 molecules on APCs can interact with mouse LFA-1 molecules on T cells across a species barrier and that this binding generates the consequent immune responses leading to rejection. mAb treatment against these adhesion molecules of recipient as well as donor is crucial for preventing rejection in a xenogeneic transplantation model.
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- Y Ohta
- Department of Surgery II, Osaka University Medical School, Japan
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Auber F, Cerf-Bensussan N, Cavazzana-Calvo M, Fauveau V, Brousse N, Fischer A, Révillon Y, Sarnacki S. [Prevention of intestinal allograft rejection by anti-adhesion molecule antibodies in a mouse model]. CHIRURGIE; MEMOIRES DE L'ACADEMIE DE CHIRURGIE 1998; 123:122-30. [PMID: 9752533 DOI: 10.1016/s0001-4001(98)80096-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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STUDY AIM Small bowel transplantation is still hampered by a high morbidity and mortality linked to the heavy non specific immunosuppression which is required by the transplantation of this lymphoid organ. Adhesion molecules appear to be potential targets for specific immunosuppression. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of a transitory administration of anti-LFA-1 or anti-alpha 4 monoclonal antibodies (mAb) in the prevention of rejection in a model of fetal small-bowel transplantation in mice. MATERIALS AND METHODS The small bowel of C57BL/6 (H-2b) fetus (16 to 20 days of gestation) was transplanted into adult C3H/He mice (H-2k) or C57BL/6 recipient mice. Recipients were treated with a short course of either anti-LFA-1 mAb alone, either with anti-alpha 4 mAb alone, or with both mAb. Biopsies with histological study of the grafts were performed between post-operative day 5 and 60. A score of development and rejection was assigned to each sample. RESULTS Normal intestinal development with no sign of rejection was observed in 24/28 syngenic grafts till post-operative day 45. In the absence of treatment, intense rejection was observed as soon as day 5 and all allogenic grafts were rejected (n = 22). In contrast, in anti-LFA-1 mAb treated mice, 18/20 allogenic grafts developed normally with minimal signs of rejection. In anti-alpha 4 treated mice, a transient protective effect on small bowel allograft survival was observed on day 7 but thereafter, all grafts were massively rejected within a few days (n = 18). The combination of both mAb didn't improve the survival of the grafts when compared to anti-LFA-1 mAb treated grafts (n = 10). CONCLUSION These results demonstrate that a transitory administration of anti-LFA-1 mAb, but not of anti-alpha 4 mAb, is able to prolong significantly the survival of non vascularized small bowel fetal grafts in mice. Our results are promising for the possible use of the anti-LFA-1 mAb in clinical intestinal transplantation.
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- F Auber
- Service de chirurgie pédiatrique, hôpital et faculté de médecine Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France
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In the past 2 decades, progressive improvements in the results of organ transplantation as a therapeutic strategy for patients with end-stage organ disease have been achieved due to greater insight into the immunobiology of graft rejection and better measures for surgical and medical management. It is now known that T cells play a central role in the specific immune response of acute allograft rejection. Strategies to prevent T cell activation or effector function are thus all potentially useful for immunosuppression. Standard immunosuppressive therapy in renal transplantation consists of baseline therapy to prevent rejection and short courses of high-dose corticosteroids or monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies as treatment of ongoing rejection episodes. Triple-drug therapy with the combination of cyclosporin, corticosteroids and azathioprine is now the most frequently used immunosuppressive drug regimen in cadaveric kidney recipients. The continuing search for more selective and specific agents has become, in the past decade, one of the priorities for transplant medicine. Some of these compounds are now entering routine clinical practice: among them are tacrolimus (which has a mechanism of action similar to that of cyclosporin), mycophenolate mofetil and mizoribine (which selectively inhibit the enzyme inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase, the rate-limiting enzyme for de novo purine synthesis during cell division), and sirolimus (rapamycin) [which acts on and inhibits kinase homologues required for cell-cycle progression in response to growth factors, like interleukin-2 (IL-2)]. Other new pharmacological strategies and innovative approaches to organ transplantation are also under development. Application of this technology will offer enormous potential not only for the investigation of mechanisms and mediators of graft rejection but also for therapeutic intervention.
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- N Perico
- Department of Transplant Immunology and Innovative Antirejection Therapies, Ospedali Riuniti, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Bergamo, Italy
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