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ReviewNature reviews. Nephrology2024

Translating B cell immunology to the treatment of antibody-mediated allograft rejection.

Peter S Heeger, Maria Carrera Haro, Stanley Jordan

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Review in Nature reviews. Nephrology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Chronic Rejection.Results and problems in cell differentiation · 2026
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  5. How Cytokines Regulate Immune Response Toward Chronic Allograft Rejection?Results and problems in cell differentiation · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Peter S HeegerComprehensive Transplant Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Maria Carrera HaroDepartment of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai, NY, USA.
Stanley JordanComprehensive Transplant Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. stan.jordan@cshs.org.ORCID 0000-0002-0456-8635

Funding

Translational Immunology Training ProgramT32AI078892 · NIAID · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI Karen Leigh Edelblum, SERGIO A. LIRA · 2008 to 2026
$4.5M
Decay Accelerating Factor and B cell ImmunityR01AI141434 · NIAID · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI DOMINGUEZ-SOLA, DAVID, HEEGER, PETER SCOTT · 2019 to 2023
$2.1M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI141434NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI078892
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), including chronic AMR (cAMR), causes ~50% of kidney allograft losses each year. Despite attempts to develop well-tolerated and effective therapeutics for the management of AMR, to date, none has obtained FDA approval, thereby highlighting an urgent unmet medical need. Discoveries over the past decade from basic, translational and clinical studies of transplant recipients have provided a foundation for developing novel therapeutic approaches to preventing and treating AMR and cAMR. These interventions are aimed at reducing donor-specific antibody levels, decreasing graft injury and fibrosis, and preserving kidney function. Innovative approaches emerging from basic science findings include targeting interactions between alloreactive T cells and B cells, and depleting alloreactive memory B cells, as well as donor-specific antibody-producing plasmablasts and plasma cells. Therapies aimed at reducing the cytotoxic antibody effector functions mediated by natural killer cells and the complement system, and their associated pro-inflammatory cytokines, are also undergoing evaluation. The complexity of the pathogenesis of AMR and cAMR suggest that multiple approaches will probably be required to treat these disease processes effectively. Definitive answers await results from large, double-blind, multicentre, randomized controlled clinical trials.

Indexed as

Kidney TransplantationAllograftsGraft RejectionHumansImmunoglobulinsRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicTransplantation, HomologousImmunoglobulins

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PMID38168662

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