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Cooper DKC, Kobayashi T. Xenotransplantation experiments in brain-dead human subjects-A critical appraisal. Am J Transplant 2024; 24:520-525. [PMID: 38158188 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.12.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
Abstract
Brain-dead human subjects (decedents) were recently introduced as a potential preclinical experimental model in xenotransplantation. Brain death is associated with major pathophysiological changes, eg, structural injury and cell infiltration in vital organs, and major hormonal, metabolic, inflammatory, and hemodynamic changes. In 2 of the 3 initial experiments, the design of the experiments resulted in little or no new information becoming available. In the third, the experiment was unfortunately unsuccessful as neither of the 2 pig kidneys transplanted into the decedent functioned adequately. Failure may well have been associated with the effects of brain death, but an immune/inflammatory response to the xenograft could not be excluded. Subsequently, 2 further pig kidney transplants and 2 pig heart transplants have been carried out in human decedents, but again the data obtained do not add much to what is already known. In view of the profound changes that take place during and after brain death, it may prove difficult to determine whether graft failure or dysfunction results from the effects of brain death or from an immune/inflammatory response to the xenograft. A major concern is that, if the results are confusing, they may impact decisions relating to the introduction of clinical xenotransplantation.
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- David K C Cooper
- Center for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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- Department of Renal Transplant Surgery, Aichi University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Japan
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Fitch Z, Schmitz R, Kwun J, Hering B, Madsen J, Knechtle SJ. Transplant research in nonhuman primates to evaluate clinically relevant immune strategies in organ transplantation. Transplant Rev (Orlando) 2019; 33:115-129. [PMID: 31027947 PMCID: PMC6599548 DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2019.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2019] [Revised: 03/08/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
Research in transplant immunology using non-human primate (NHP) species to evaluate immunologic strategies to prevent rejection and prolong allograft survival has yielded results that have translated successfully into human organ transplant patient management. Other therapies have not proceeded to human translation due to failure in NHP testing, arguably sparing humans the futility and risk of such testing. The NHP transplant models are ethically necessary for drug development in this field and provide the closest analogue to human transplant patients available. The refinement of this resource with respect to colony MHC typing, reagent and assay development, and availability to the research community has greatly enhanced knowledge about transplant immunology and drug development.
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- Zachary Fitch
- Department of Surgery, Duke Transplant Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA; Center for Transplantation Sciences, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, White 510c, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Duke Transplant Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Duke Transplant Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Schulze Diabetes Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Duke Transplant Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Duke Transplant Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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Uto S, Nishizawa S, Hikita A, Takato T, Hoshi K. Application of induced pluripotent stem cells for cartilage regeneration in CLAWN miniature pig osteochondral replacement model. Regen Ther 2018; 9:58-70. [PMID: 30525076 PMCID: PMC6222263 DOI: 10.1016/j.reth.2018.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2018] [Revised: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 06/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Introduction Pluripotent stem cells have an advantage that they can proliferate without reduction of the quality, while they have risk of tumorigenesis. It is desirable that pluripotent stem cells can be utilized safely with minimal effort in cartilage regenerative medicine. To accomplish this, we examined the potential usefulness of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) after minimal treatment via cell isolation and hydrogel embedding for cartilage regeneration using a large animal model. Methods Porcine iPS-like cells were established from the CLAWN miniature pig. In vitro differentiation was examined for porcine iPS-like cells with minimal treatment. For the osteochondral replacement model, osteochondral defect was made in the quarters of the anteromedial sides of the proximal tibias in pigs. Porcine iPS-like cells and human iPS cells with minimal treatment were seeded on scaffold made of thermo-compression-bonded beta-TCP and poly-L-lactic acid and transplanted to the defect, and cartilage regeneration and tumorigenesis were evaluated. Results The in vitro analysis indicated that the minimal treatment was sufficient to weaken the pluripotency of the porcine iPS-like cells, while chondrogenic differentiation did not occur in vitro. When porcine iPS-like cells were transplanted into osteochondral replacement model after minimal treatment in vitro, cartilage regeneration was observed without tumor formation. Additionally, fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) indicated that the chondrocytes in the regenerative cartilage originated from transplanted porcine iPS-like cells. Transplantation of human iPS cells also showed the regeneration of cartilage in miniature pigs under immunosuppressive treatment. Conclusion Minimally-treated iPS cells will be a useful cell source for cartilage regenerative medicine.
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- Sakura Uto
- Department of Tissue Engineering, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Translational Research Center, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Tissue Engineering, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.,Department of Cell & Tissue Engineering (Fujisoft), Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- JR Tokyo General Hospital, 2-1-3 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 151-8528, Japan
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- Department of Tissue Engineering, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.,Department of Sensory and Motor System Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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Michel SG, Madariaga MLL, LaMuraglia GMII, Villani V, Sekijima M, Farkash EA, Colvin RB, Sachs DH, Yamada K, Rosengard BR, Allan JS, Madsen JC. The effects of brain death and ischemia on tolerance induction are organ-specific. Am J Transplant 2018; 18:1262-1269. [PMID: 29377632 PMCID: PMC5910264 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2017] [Revised: 12/29/2017] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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We have previously shown that 12 days of high-dose calcineurin inhibition induced tolerance in MHC inbred miniature swine receiving MHC-mismatched lung, kidney, or co-transplanted heart/kidney allografts. However, if lung grafts were procured from donation after brain death (DBD), and transplanted alone, they were rejected within 19-45 days. Here, we investigated whether donor brain death with or without allograft ischemia would also prevent tolerance induction in kidney or heart/kidney recipients. Four kidney recipients treated with 12 days of calcineurin inhibition received organs from donors rendered brain dead for 4 hours. Six heart/kidney recipients also treated with calcineurin inhibition received organs from donors rendered brain dead for 4 hours, 8 hours, or 4 hours with 4 additional hours of cold storage. In contrast to lung allograft recipients, all isolated kidney or heart/kidney recipients that received organs from DBD donors achieved long-term survival (>100 days) without histologic evidence of rejection. Proinflammatory cytokine gene expression was upregulated in lungs and hearts, but not kidney allografts, after brain death. These data suggest that the deleterious effects of brain death and ischemia on tolerance induction are organ-specific, which has implications for the application of tolerance to clinical transplantation.
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- SG Michel
- Center for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Clinic of Cardiac Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
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- Center for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Emory Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Center for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Division of Organ Replacement and Xenotransplantation Surgery, Kagoshima University, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,University of Michigan Health System Department of Pathology, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Center for Translational Immunology, Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Translational Immunology, Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW When it comes to tolerance induction, kidney allografts behave differently from heart allografts that behave differently from lung allografts. Here, we examine how and why different organ allografts respond differently to the same tolerance induction protocol. RECENT FINDINGS Allograft tolerance has been achieved in experimental and clinical kidney transplantation. Inducing tolerance in experimental recipients of heart and lung allografts has, however, proven to be more challenging. New protocols being developed in nonhuman primates based on mixed chimerism and cotransplantation of tolerogenic organs may provide mechanistic insights to help overcome these challenges. SUMMARY Tolerance induction protocols that are successful in patients transplanted with 'tolerance-prone' organs such as kidneys and livers will most likely not succeed in recipients of 'tolerance-resistant' organs such as hearts and lungs. Separate clinical trials using more robust tolerance protocols will be required to achieve tolerance in heart and lung recipients.
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