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ArticleThe American journal of pathology2011

Increased expression of peripheral blood leukocyte genes implicate CD14+ tissue macrophages in cellular intestine allograft rejection.

Chethan Ashokkumar, Mylarappa Ningappa, Sarangarajan Ranganathan, Brandon W Higgs, Qing Sun, Lori Schmitt, Sara Snyder, Jennifer Dobberstein, Maria Branca, Ronald Jaffe and 11 more

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Article in The American journal of pathology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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21 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Chethan AshokkumarHillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Mylarappa Ningappa
Sarangarajan Ranganathan
Brandon W Higgs
Qing Sun
Lori Schmitt
Sara Snyder
Jennifer Dobberstein
Maria Branca
Ronald Jaffe
Adriana Zeevi
Robert Squires
Feras Alissa
Benjamin Shneider
Kyle Soltys
Geoffrey Bond
Kareem Abu-Elmagd
Abhinav Humar
George Mazariegos
Hakon Hakonarson
Rakesh Sindhi
University of Pittsburgh · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · USChildren's Hospital of Pittsburgh · USChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recurrent rejection shortens graft survival after intestinal transplantation (ITx) in children, most of whom also experience early acute cellular rejection (rejectors). To elucidate mechanisms common to early and recurrent rejection, we used a test cohort of 20 recipients to test the hypothesis that candidate peripheral blood leukocyte genes that trigger rejection episodes would be evident late after ITx during quiescent periods in genome-wide gene expression analysis and would achieve quantitative real-time PCR replication pre-ITx (another quiescent period) and in the early post-ITx period during first rejection episodes. Eight genes were significantly up-regulated among rejectors in the late post-ITx and pre-ITx periods, compared with nonrejectors: TBX21, CCL5, GNLY, SLAMF7, TGFBR3, NKG7, SYNE1, and GK5. Only CCL5 was also up-regulated in the early post-ITx period. Among resting peripheral blood leukocyte subsets in randomly sampled nonrejectors, CD14(+) monocytes expressed the CCL5 protein maximally. Compared with nonrejectors, rejectors demonstrated higher counts of both circulating CCL5(+)CD14(+) monocytes and intragraft CD14(+) monocyte-derived macrophages in immunohistochemistry of postperfusion and early post-ITx biopsies from the test and an independent replication cohort. Donor-specific alloreactivity measured with CD154(+) T-cytotoxic memory cells correlated with the CCL5 gene and intragraft CD14(+) monocyte-derived macrophages at graft reperfusion and early post-ITx. CCL5 gene up-regulation and CD14(+) macrophages likely prime cellular ITx rejection. Infiltration of reperfused intestine allografts with CD14(+) macrophages may predict rejection events.

Indexed as

Gene Expression RegulationAntigen PresentationChild, PreschoolFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGraft RejectionHumansImmunologic MemoryInfantInflammationIntestinesLeukocytesLipopolysaccharide ReceptorsLymphocyte CountMacrophagesMaleLipopolysaccharide Receptors

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PMID21854741
PMCPMC3181350
OpenAlexW2130510585

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