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ArticleAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2011

IL-6 induced by Staphylococcus aureus infection prevents the induction of skin allograft acceptance in mice.

E B Ahmed, T Wang, M Daniels, M-L Alegre, A S Chong

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Article in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Acute murine cytomegalovirus disrupts established transplantation tolerance and causes recipient allo-sensitization.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2021
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  14. Bacterial products in donor airways prevent the induction of lung transplant tolerance.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2021
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  17. Trained immunity in organ transplantation.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2020
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  20. Exercise increases skin graft resistance to rejection.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

E B AhmedDepartment of Surgery Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
T Wang
M Daniels
M-L Alegre
A S Chong
University of Chicago · US

Funding

VIRAL ONCOLOGY CORE FACILITYP30CA014599 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI MARK W. LINGEN · 1985 to 2026
$122.1M
Mechanistic studies on Listeria infection and inhibition of allograft toleranceR01AI072630 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHONG, ANITA S · 2007 to 2011
$2.1M
Mechanisms of TLR-mediated prevention of transplantation toleranceR01AI071080 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ALEGRE, MARIA-LUISA · 2008 to 2012
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS 5P30CA014599-35NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014599NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI071080NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI072630
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical correlations between bacterial infections and rejection suggest a hypothesis that innate immune stimulation by bacterial infections results in the production of inflammatory cytokine that facilitate bystander T-cell activation, increased alloreactivity and inhibition of tolerance induction. Previous studies demonstrated that IFNβ produced during an infection with a model bacterium, Listeria monocytogenes, prevented the induction of transplantation tolerance in mice with anti-CD154 and donor-specific transfusion (DST) (1). We investigated the impact of two clinically relevant bacterial infections at the time of transplantation on the ability of anti-CD154 and DST to induce skin allograft acceptance in mice. Staphylococcus aureus (SA) infection prevented skin allograft acceptance whereas maximally tolerated doses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection had no effect. SA induced an acute production of IL-6, which was necessary and sufficient for the prevention of skin allograft acceptance. Furthermore, a single pulse of methylprednisolone modulated IL-6 production during SA infection and facilitated skin allograft acceptance in SA-infected recipients. Taken together, our results suggest that bacterial infections elicit specific proinflammatory cytokines signatures that can serve as barriers to tolerance induction, and that inhibiting the production of or neutralizing these inflammatory cytokines can synergize with costimulatory blockade-based therapies to facilitate the development of transplantation tolerance.

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AnimalsCD40 LigandCytokinesFemaleGraft SurvivalInflammationInterleukin-6MethylprednisoloneMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C3HMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicPseudomonas aeruginosaSkin TransplantationStaphylococcal InfectionsCD40 LigandCytokinesInterleukin-6Methylprednisolone

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PMID21449942
PMCPMC3083487
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