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ArticleTransplantation direct2016

Identification of Novel and Noninvasive Biomarkers of Acute Cellular Rejection After Liver Transplantation by Protein Microarray.

Keita Okubo, Hiroshi Wada, Atsushi Tanaka, Hidetoshi Eguchi, Masahide Hamaguchi, Akira Tomokuni, Yoshito Tomimaru, Tadafumi Asaoka, Naoki Hama, Koichi Kawamoto and 8 more

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Article in Transplantation direct, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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18 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Keita Okubo
Hiroshi WadaDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Atsushi TanakaDepartment of Experimental Immunology, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Hidetoshi EguchiDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Masahide HamaguchiDepartment of Experimental Immunology, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Akira TomokuniDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Yoshito TomimaruDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Tadafumi AsaokaDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Naoki HamaDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Koichi KawamotoDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Shogo KobayashiDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Shigeru MarubashiDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Hiroaki NaganoDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Noriko SakaguchiDepartment of Experimental Immunology, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Hiroyoshi NishikawaDepartment of Experimental Immunology, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Yuichiro DokiDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Masaki MoriDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Shimon SakaguchiDepartment of Experimental Immunology, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Osaka University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAcute cellular rejection (ACR) is one of the main factors in transplanted organ failure in liver transplantation. A precise marker for diagnosing or predicting rejection is not currently available; therefore, invasive liver biopsy is standard procedure. To develop a noninvasive method for precise diagnosis of ACR, we evaluated autoantibodies from patient sera as potential biomarkers using protein microarrays (seromics).

methodsSera from hepatitis C virus-positive ACR patients were compared to three hepatitis C virus cirrhosis control groups and healthy volunteers. The control groups consisted of 2 no-ACR groups obtained on postoperative day 28 and 1 year after transplantation and a preoperative group obtained 1 day before transplantation. For validation, we evaluated whether the candidate antibodies can distinguish ACR from other types of liver dysfunction after liver transplantation using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

resultsSeromic analysis by weighted average difference (WAD) ranking and Mann-Whitney

conclusionsA panel of autoantibodies identified by seromics as potential noninvasive biomarkers was clinically useful for diagnosing ACR after liver transplantation.

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