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A cell line model for the differentiation of human dendritic cells

scientific article published in August 2005

A fast and simple method for detecting and quantifying donor-derived cell-free DNA in sera of solid organ transplant recipients as a biomarker for graft function.

scientific article published in July 2016

A new epitope-based HLA-DPB matching approach for cadaver kidney retransplants.

scientific article

ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation.

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

ATG induction in renal transplant recipients: Long-term hazard of severe infection is associated with long-term functional T cell impairment but not the ATG-induced CD4 cell decline

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

ATG induction therapy: long-term effects on Th1 but not on Th2 responses

scientific article

Active‐specific immunotherapy of human cancers with the heat shock protein Gp96—revisited ⬇️

scientific article published on January 24, 2012

Advancing Transplantation: New Questions, New Possibilities in Kidney and Liver Transplantation

scientific article published in February 2017

An Integrative Approach for the Transplantation of High-Risk Sensitized Patients ⬇️

scientific article published on September 27, 2010

Analysis of positive kidney, heart, and liver transplant crossmatches reported to the Collaborative Transplant Study.

scientific article published on 15 April 2009

Antithymocyte globulins suppress dendritic cell function by multiple mechanisms

scientific article

Apoptosis-mediated selective killing of malignant cells by cardiac steroids: maintenance of cytotoxicity and loss of cardiac activity of chemically modified derivatives

scientific article published in December 2003

Association of CD30 transcripts with Th1 responses and proinflammatory cytokines in patients with end-stage renal disease.

scientific article published on 9 March 2016

Association of IL-12+ DC with High CD3+CD4-DR+ lymphocyte counts in long-term HIV-infected hemophilia patients with clinically stable disease

scientific article

Association of Mismatches for HLA-DR With Incidence of Posttransplant Hip Fracture in Kidney Transplant Recipients ⬇️

scientific article published on January 15, 2011

Association of circulating interleukin (IL)-12- and IL-10-producing dendritic cells with time posttransplant, dose of immunosuppression, and plasma cytokines in renal-transplant recipients

scientific article published in June 2005

Association of high IFN-gamma plasma levels with low B-cell counts in renal transplant recipients with stable long-term graft function

scientific article

Association of high pretransplant sIL-6R plasma levels with acute tubular necrosis in kidney graft recipients

scientific article

Association of low serum TGF-β level in hantavirus infected patients with severe disease

scientific article

Association of pretransplant soluble glycoprotein 130 (sgp130) plasma levels and posttransplant acute tubular necrosis in renal transplant recipients

scientific article

Associations of Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) 4.4 and Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) 4.4 Blood Levels with Plasma IL-4 ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2002

Autoantigen-specific immunosuppression with tolerogenic peripheral blood cells prevents relapses in a mouse model of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on May 2016

C3 polymorphisms and allograft outcome in renal transplantation

scientific article published in February 2009

CD4(+)CD25(+)Foxp3(+)IFNγ(+) Treg are immunosuppressive in vitro and increase with intensity of the alloresponse in pretransplant MLC.

scientific article

CD4+ CD25+ Foxp3+ IFNγ+ CD178+ human induced Treg (iTreg) contribute to suppression of alloresponses by apoptosis of responder cells

scientific article

CD4+CD25+Foxp3+IFN-γ+ human induced T regulatory cells are induced by interferon-γ and suppress alloresponses nonspecifically

scientific article

Cardiovascular Death in Kidney Recipients Treated With Renin-Angiotensin System Blockers

scientific article published on 19 November 2013

Cell cycle- and activation-dependent regulation of cyclosporin A-induced T cell apoptosis ⬇️

scientific article published on October 17, 2003

Cell therapeutic approaches to immunosuppression after clinical kidney transplantation

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Cell therapy for immunosuppression after kidney transplantation

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Clinical outcome with low-dose valacyclovir in high-risk renal transplant recipients: a 10-year experience

scientific article

Clinical relevance of HLA antibody monitoring after kidney transplantation

scientific article

Clinical relevance of immune monitoring in solid organ transplantation

scientific article

Clinical relevance of preformed IgG and IgM antibodies against donor endothelial progenitor cells in recipients of living donor kidney grafts

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

Consensus guidelines on the testing and clinical management issues associated with HLA and non-HLA antibodies in transplantation

scientific article published in January 2013

Correction: Helios expression and Foxp3 TSDR methylation of IFNy+ and IFNy- Treg from kidney transplant recipients with good long-term graft function

scientific article published on 31 May 2017

Critical evaluation of the amino acid triplet-epitope matching concept in cadaver kidney transplantation

scientific article published in March 2004

Current role of human leukocyte antigen matching in kidney transplantation

scientific article published on August 2013

Cytokine expression during early and late phase of acute Puumala hantavirus infection

scientific article

Cytomegalovirus prophylaxis and graft outcome in solid organ transplantation: a collaborative transplant study report

scientific article

Decreased NK cell immunity in kidney transplant recipients late post-transplant and increased NK-cell immunity in patients with recurrent miscarriage

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Decreasing plasma soluble IL-1 receptor antagonist and increasing monocyte activation early post-transplant may be involved in pathogenesis of delayed graft function in renal transplant recipients

scientific article

Defective DNA mismatch repair in acute myeloid leukemia/myelodysplastic syndrome after organ transplantation

scientific article published on 15 April 2004

Defunctioning polymorphism in the immunoglobulin G inhibitory receptor (FcγRIIB-T/T232) does not impact on kidney transplant or recipient survival

scientific article

Deleterious Impact of Mismatching for Human Leukocyte Antigen-C in Presensitized Recipients of Kidney Transplants ⬇️

scientific article published on August 27, 2011

Deleterious impact of HLA-DRB1 allele mismatch in sensitized recipients of kidney retransplants

scientific article published in January 2013

Disassociation between risk of graft loss and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma with induction agents in renal transplant recipients

scientific article

Dissociation of CD4(+) cell counts from viral load and association with immune complexes in HIV(+) hemophilia patients

scientific article published in January 2004

Does borderline kidney allograft rejection always require treatment?

scientific article published in August 2010

Donor ABCB1 variant associates with increased risk for kidney allograft failure

scientific article

Dysregulated cytokine responses during cytomegalovirus infection in renal transplant recipients

scientific article

Early post-operative acute phase response in patients with early graft dysfunction is predictive of 6-month and 12-month mortality in liver transplant recipients

scientific article

Early post-transplant neopterin associated with one year survival and bacteremia in liver transplant recipients

scientific article published on 12 November 2015

Effect of cytomegalovirus prophylaxis with immunoglobulin or with antiviral drugs on post-transplant non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a multicentre retrospective analysis

scientific article

Effect of human leukocyte antigen compatibility on kidney graft survival: comparative analysis of two decades

scientific article published on July 2007

Effect on kidney graft survival of reducing or discontinuing maintenance immunosuppression after the first year posttransplant

scientific article published in August 2008

Efficacy and safety of antibody induction therapy in the current era of kidney transplantation

scientific article

Epidemiology of pretransplant EBV and CMV serostatus in relation to posttransplant non-Hodgkin lymphoma

scientific article

Evaluation of hepatocyte growth factor as a sensitive marker for early detection of acute renal allograft rejection

scientific article

Evaluation of posttransplantation soluble CD30 for diagnosis of acute renal allograft rejection

scientific article published in February 2003

Evidence for IFN-gamma up- and IL-4 downregulation late post-transplant in patients with good kidney graft outcome

scientific article

Expanding the evidence base in transplantation: the complementary roles of randomized controlled trials and outcomes research

scientific article published on July 2008

Expression of regulatory T-cell-related molecule genes and clinical outcome in kidney transplant recipients

scientific article published in March 2009

From Cancer to Transplantation: An Evaluation of Period Analysis for Calculating Up-to-date Long-term Survival Estimates

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Generation of suppressive blood cells for control of allograft rejection.

scientific article published in May 2015

Generation of tolerogenic dendritic cells by treatment with mitomycin C: inhibition of allogeneic T-cell response is mediated by downregulation of ICAM-1, CD80, and CD86.

scientific article published in June 2004

Genetic polymorphisms of adhesion molecules and kidney transplant survival.

scientific article published in May 2010

H-Y as a minor histocompatibility antigen in kidney transplantation: a retrospective cohort study

scientific article published in July 2008

HIV-Specific CD8(+) T Lymphocytes in Blood of Long-Term HIV-Infected Hemophilia Patients

scientific article

HLA Matching in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: HLA Poorly Matched Living Donor Transplants Versus HLA Well Matched Deceased Donor Transplants

scientific article published on 4 May 2017

HLA antibodies and the occurrence of early adverse events in the modern era of transplantation: a collaborative transplant study report

scientific article

HLA antibody screening in kidney transplantation: current guidelines

scientific article

HLA matching and kidney transplantation: beyond graft survival

scientific article

HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor simvastatin overcomes bortezomib-induced apoptosis resistance by disrupting a geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate-dependent survival pathway

scientific article

Helenalin suppresses essential immune functions of activated CD4+ T cells by multiple mechanisms

scientific article

Helios expression and Foxp3 TSDR methylation of IFNy+ and IFNy- Treg from kidney transplant recipients with good long-term graft function

scientific article

High urine sIL-6R as a predictor of late graft failure in renal transplant recipients ⬇️

scientific article published on October 27, 2003

IDO1 and IDO2 are expressed in human tumors: levo- but not dextro-1-methyl tryptophan inhibits tryptophan catabolism

scientific article

IFNy+ and IFNy- Treg subsets with stable and unstable Foxp3 expression in kidney transplant recipients with good long-term graft function

scientific article

IFNγ+ Treg in-vivo and in-vitro represent both activated nTreg and peripherally induced aTreg and remain phenotypically stable in-vitro after removal of the stimulus

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

IL-23 plasma level is strongly associated with CMV status and reactivation of CMV in renal transplant recipients

scientific article

Identification of highly responsive kidney transplant recipients using pretransplant soluble CD30

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Immunological relevance of CREG matching in cadaver kidney transplantation

scientific article published on August 2004

Immunosuppression with mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor and incidence of post-transplant cancer in kidney transplant recipients

scientific article

Immunosuppressive anti-immunoglobulin autoantibodies: specificity, gene structure and function in health and disease

scientific article

Immunosuppressive drugs affect induction of IFNy+ Treg in vitro

scientific article published on 13 November 2015

Immunosuppressive effect of tryptophan metabolites in composite tissue allotransplantation

scientific article published on June 2007

Immunosuppressive properties of mitomycin C-incubated human myeloid blood cells (MIC) in vitro.

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Impact of HLA Compatibility on Lung Transplant Survival and Evidence for an HLA Restriction Phenomenon: A Collaborative Transplant Study Report ⬇️

scientific article published on October 27, 2010

Impact of HLA Matching and HLA Antibodies in Organ Transplantation: A Collaborative Transplant Study View ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Impact of HLA mismatching on incidence of posttransplant non-hodgkin lymphoma after kidney transplantation

scientific article published in March 2010

Impact of maintenance immunosuppressive regimens - balance between graft protective suppression of immune functions and a near physiological immune response ⬇️

scientific article published on March 14, 2011

Improved long-term outcomes after renal transplantation associated with blood pressure control

scientific article

In Memoriam: Paul I. Terasaki-September 10, 1929 to January 25, 2016.

scientific article published on 13 February 2016

In-vitro inhibition of IFNγ+ iTreg mediated by monoclonal antibodies against cell surface determinants essential for iTreg function ⬇️

scientific article published on August 21, 2012

Increased expression and altered subunit composition of proteasomes induced by continuous proteasome inhibition establish apoptosis resistance and hyperproliferation of Burkitt lymphoma cells

scientific article

Increased peripheral blood leukocyte subsets with regulatory phenotype in clinically stable long-term HIV-infected hemophilia patients on HAART may be beneficial and contribute to a decrease in autoimmunity

scientific article

Increased pretransplantation plasma kynurenine levels do not protect from but predict acute kidney allograft rejection ⬇️

scientific article published on August 21, 2010

Increased serum levels of quinolinic acid indicate enhanced severity of hepatic dysfunction in patients with liver cirrhosis

scientific article

Induction of apoptosis in human lymphocytes by human anti-HLA class I antibodies ⬇️

scientific article published on April 27, 2003

Influence of Blood Pressure and Calcineurin Inhibitors on Kidney Function After Heart or Liver Transplantation

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

Influence of Current and Previous Smoking on Cancer and Mortality After Kidney Transplantation

scientific article published on 22 June 2015

Influence of immunosuppressive regimens on graft survival and secondary outcomes after kidney transplantation

scientific article published in March 2009

Inhibition of allogeneic T cell proliferation by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-expressing dendritic cells: mediation of suppression by tryptophan metabolites

scientific article

Inhibitors of indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase for cancer therapy: can we see the wood for the trees?

scientific article published on June 2009

Integrating data from multiple sources for data completeness in a web-based registry for pediatric renal transplantation--the CERTAIN Registry

scientific article

Interferon-gamma producing regulatory T cells as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool in organ transplantation

scientific article

Kidney graft survival in Europe and the United States: strikingly different long-term outcomes

scientific article published on January 2013

Kidney transplantation in highly sensitized patients: are there options to overcome a positive crossmatch? ⬇️

scientific article published on March 18, 2011

Levo- but not dextro-1-methyl tryptophan abrogates the IDO activity of human dendritic cells

scientific article

Living donor kidney transplantation in crossmatch-positive patients enabled by peritransplant immunoadsorption and anti-CD20 therapy ⬇️

scientific article published on February 29, 2012

Living donor kidney transplantation in patients with donor-specific HLA antibodies enabled by anti-CD20 therapy and peritransplant apheresis

scientific article published on January 2013

Living kidney donor follow-up: state-of-the-art and future directions, conference summary and recommendations

scientific article

Longitudinal analysis of T-helper cell phenotypes in renal-transplant recipients undergoing growth hormone therapy

scientific article published in December 2004

Low utility of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 and 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in predicting peripheral Treg and Th17 cell counts in ESRD and renal transplant patients

scientific article

Low-dose oral cholecalciferol is associated with higher numbers of Helios(+) and total Tregs than oral calcitriol in renal allograft recipients: an observational study

scientific article

Malignancies in transplanted patients: Multidisciplinary evaluation and switch to mTOR inhibitors after kidney transplantation - experiences from a prospective, clinical, observational study

scientific article published on 29 January 2016

Malignancy in renal transplantation

scientific article published on June 2004

Metabolic control improves long-term renal allograft and patient survival in type 1 diabetes

scientific article published on 21 May 2008

Mitomycin C-treated antigen-presenting cells as a tool for control of allograft rejection and autoimmunity: from bench to bedside.

scientific article published on 22 April 2009

Mitomycin C-treated dendritic cells inactivate autoreactive T cells: toward the development of a tolerogenic vaccine in autoimmune diseases

scholarly article

Mycophenolate mofetil-based immunosuppression and cytokine genotypes: effects on monokine secretion and antigen presentation in long-term renal transplant recipients

scientific article

Natural killer-cell receptor polymorphisms and posttransplantation non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

scientific article published on 5 March 2010

No Increase in Colon Cancer Risk Following Induction with Neu5Gc-Bearing Rabbit Anti-T Cell IgG (ATG) in Recipients of Kidney Transplants

No association of factor V Leiden, prothrombin G20210A, and MTHFR C677T gene polymorphisms with kidney allograft survival: a multicenter study

scientific article published on April 2007

No improvement of patient or graft survival in transplant recipients treated with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin II type 1 receptor blockers: a collaborative transplant study report

scientific article published on 11 October 2006

Normal or even increased dendritic cell and peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets with regulatory phenotype in clinically stable long-term HIV-infected patients with hemophilia on highly active antiretroviral therapy

scientific article

Observational support for an immunoregulatory role of CD3+CD4+CD25+IFN-gamma+ blood lymphocytes in kidney transplant recipients with good long-term graft outcome

scientific article

Outcomes Following ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation Performed After Desensitization by Nonantigen-Specific Immunoadsorption

scientific article

Outcomes of kidney transplant tourism in children: a single center experience

scientific article

Pathway of apoptosis induced in Jurkat T lymphoblasts by anti-HLA class I antibodies

scientific article published in March 2004

Patients with idiopathic recurrent miscarriage have abnormally high TGFß+ blood NK, NKT and T cells in the presence of abnormally low TGFß plasma levels

scholarly article by Li Zhu et al published 4 March 2019 in BMC Immunology

Paul Ichiro Terasaki September 10, 1929 to January 25, 2016: Transplant Pioneer

scientific article

Pediatric kidney transplantation: analysis of donor age, HLA match, and posttransplant non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a collaborative transplant study report

scientific article

Pharmacokinetics and immunodynamics of basiliximab in pediatric renal transplant recipients on mycophenolate mofetil comedication

scientific article

Plasmapheresis adjusts inflammatory responses in potential kidney transplant recipients

scientific article

Polymorphisms of the tumor necrosis factor-alpha gene promoter predict for outcome after thalidomide therapy in relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma.

scientific article published in September 2002

Posttransplant sCD30 as a Predictor of Kidney Graft Outcome ⬇️

scientific article published on June 27, 2011

Posttransplant sCD30 as a biomarker to predict kidney graft outcome ⬇️

scientific article published on October 20, 2011

Pre- and posttransplantation allosensitization in heart allograft recipients: Major impact of de novo alloantibody production on allograft survival ⬇️

scientific article published on November 10, 2010

Presensitized kidney graft recipients with HLA class I and II antibodies are at increased risk for graft failure: a Collaborative Transplant Study report

scientific article published on 16 April 2009

President's Address. The Transplantation Society--Berlin 2012.

scientific article published in January 2013

Prevention of antibody-mediated kidney transplant rejection ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

Proteasomal chymotrypsin-like peptidase activity is required for essential functions of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells

scientific article

Proteasome inhibition activates the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis in human CD4+ T cells

scientific article

Proteasome inhibition suppresses essential immune functions of human CD4+ T cells

scientific article

Reduced rate of cardiovascular death after cytomegalovirus prophylaxis in renal transplant recipients

scientific article published on June 2015

Reduction of skeletal muscle injury in composite tissue allotransplantation by heat stress preconditioning

scientific article published in December 2004

Regulation of human auto- and alloreactive T cells by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO)-producing dendritic cells: too much ado about IDO?

scientific article published on 30 November 2004

Release of soluble CD30 after allogeneic stimulation is mediated by memory T cells and regulated by IFN-γ and IL-2.

scientific article published in July 2013

Risks of allogeneic hand transplantation

scientific article published on January 2004

Role and Value of Luminex(®)-Detected HLA Antibodies before and after Kidney Transplantation

scientific article published on 6 May 2013

Role of human corneal endothelial cells in T-cell-mediated alloimmune attack in vitro

scientific article

Salinomycin in cancer: A new mission for an old agent ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2010

Salinomycin induces apoptosis and overcomes apoptosis resistance in human cancer cells

scientific article

Salinomycin overcomes ABC transporter-mediated multidrug and apoptosis resistance in human leukemia stem cell-like KG-1a cells

scientific article

Sequential analysis by immunoprecipitation-MALDI-TOF: a novel method for detection and identification of alloantibody specificities

scientific article

Serial peripheral blood interleukin-18 and perforin gene expression measurements for prediction of acute kidney graft rejection

scientific article published in May 2004

Serial peripheral blood perforin and granzyme B gene expression measurements for prediction of acute rejection in kidney graft recipients

scientific article published in September 2003

Seven novel HLA alleles reflect different mechanisms involved in the evolution of HLA diversity: description of the new alleles and review of the literature

scientific article

Short communication: decreasing soluble CD30 and increasing IFN-gamma plasma levels are indicators of effective highly active antiretroviral therapy

scientific article published in July 2007

Single-chain Fv-based affinity purification of the cellular stress protein gp96 for vaccine development

scientific article

Strong association of phenylalanine and tryptophan metabolites with activated cytomegalovirus infection in kidney transplant recipients

scientific article

Strong inflammatory cytokine response in male and strong anti-inflammatory response in female kidney transplant recipients with urinary tract infection

scientific article published in February 2005

Studying the immunosuppressive role of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase: tryptophan metabolites suppress rat allogeneic T-cell responses in vitro and in vivo

scientific article published in January 2005

Subjective and quantitative assessment of patient fitness for cadaveric kidney transplantation: the "equity penalty".

scientific article published on April 2003

Successful deceased-donor kidney transplantation in crossmatch-positive patients with peritransplant plasma exchange and Rituximab

scientific article published in March 2009

Suppressive dendritic cells as a tool for controlling allograft rejection in organ transplantation: promises and difficulties

scientific article published on 29 February 2008

The Risk of Failure With HLA Mismatch and Recipient Age in First Pediatric (<18 years) Kidney Transplants.

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

The Risk of Transplant Failure With HLA Mismatch in First Adult Kidney Allografts 2: Living Donors, Summary, Guide

scientific article

The Risk of Transplant Failure With HLA Mismatch in First Adult Kidney Allografts From Deceased Donors

scientific article

The collaborative transplant study registry

scientific article

The effect of ATG on cytokine and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte gene expression in renal allograft recipients during the early post-transplant period.

scientific article

The effect of donor gender on graft survival

scientific article published on October 2002

The immunoregulatory role of IDO-producing human dendritic cells revisited

scientific article published on 10 January 2006

Three-year outcomes following 1420 ABO-incompatible living-donor kidney transplants performed after ABO antibody reduction: results from 101 centers

scientific article published on February 2015

Transmission of donor-derived small-cell carcinoma cells by a nontumor-bearing allograft.

scientific article

Urinary proinflammatory cytokine response in renal transplant recipients with polyomavirus BK viruria

scientific article

Vitamin D and TH17 Lymphocytes

scientific article

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