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ReviewNature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology2020

Understanding, predicting and achieving liver transplant tolerance: from bench to bedside.

Angus W Thomson, Julien Vionnet, Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo

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Review in Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Selective decrease of donor-reactive TScience translational medicine · 2022
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  8. Preformed donor-specific antibodies are associated with acute rejection and biliary complications after liver transplantation: A Swiss Transplant Cohort Study analysis.Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society · 2026
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  18. Mouse orthotopic liver transplantation: Challenges, achievements, and applications.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Angus W ThomsonThomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. thomsonaw@upmc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6731-8871
Julien VionnetInstitute of Liver Studies, Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Transplantation, School of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, King's College London University, King's College Hospital, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1654-0488
Alberto Sanchez-FueyoInstitute of Liver Studies, Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Transplantation, School of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, King's College London University, King's College Hospital, London, UK.

Funding

Transplant Pathology and Tissue Imaging Core (Core B)U19AI131453 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI EZZELARAB, MOHAMED B · 2017 to 2022
$8.4M
Regulatory Dendritic Cell Therapy in Live Donor Renal Transplant RecipientsU01AI136779 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI THOMSON, ANGUS W · 2018 to 2022
$4.3M
Regulation of Liver DC Function and Transplant ToleranceR01AI118777 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI THOMSON, ANGUS W · 2017 to 2021
$2.3M
Department of HealthMedical Research Council MC_PC_15108Medical Research Council MR/P007694/1NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI118777NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI136779NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI131453
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the past 40 years, liver transplantation has evolved from a high-risk procedure to one that offers high success rates for reversal of liver dysfunction and excellent patient and graft survival. The liver is the most tolerogenic of transplanted organs; indeed, immunosuppressive therapy can be completely withdrawn without rejection of the graft in carefully selected, stable long-term liver recipients. However, in other recipients, chronic allograft injury, late graft failure and the adverse effects of anti-rejection therapy remain important obstacles to improved success. The liver has a unique composition of parenchymal and immune cells that regulate innate and adaptive immunity and that can promote antigen-specific tolerance. Although the mechanisms underlying liver transplant tolerance are not well understood, important insights have been gained into how the local microenvironment, hepatic immune cells and specific molecular pathways can promote donor-specific tolerance. These insights provide a basis for the identification of potential clinical biomarkers that might correlate with tolerance or rejection and for the development of novel therapeutic targets. Innovative approaches aimed at promoting immunosuppressive drug minimization or withdrawal include the adoptive transfer of donor-derived or recipient-derived regulatory immune cells to promote liver transplant tolerance. In this Review, we summarize and discuss these developments and their implications for liver transplantation.

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Liver TransplantationAnimalsGraft RejectionGraft SurvivalHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsLiverMiceRatsTransplantation ToleranceWithholding TreatmentImmunosuppressive Agents

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