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SUBMITTER: Valenzuela NM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3563267 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Valenzuela N M NM Hong L L Shen X-Da XD Gao F F Young S H SH Rozengurt E E Kupiec-Weglinski J W JW Fishbein M C MC Reed E F EF
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20121227 2
Donor-specific HLA antibodies significantly lower allograft survival, but as yet there are no satisfactory therapies for prevention of antibody-mediated rejection. Intracapillary macrophage infiltration is a hallmark of antibody-mediated rejection, and macrophages are important in both acute and chronic rejection. The purpose of this study was to investigate the Fc-independent effect of HLA I antibodies on endothelial cell activation, leading to monocyte recruitment. We used an in vitro model to ...[more]