Regulatory T-cell therapy in transplantation: moving to the clinic

Q Tang, JA Bluestone - Cold Spring …, 2013 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are essential to transplantation tolerance and their therapeutic
efficacy is well documented in animal models. Moreover, human Tregs can be identified …

CD4+ T‐regulatory cells: toward therapy for human diseases

SE Allan, R Broady, S Gregori, ME Himmel… - Immunological …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
T‐regulatory cells (Tregs) have a fundamental role in the establishment and maintenance of
peripheral tolerance. There is now compelling evidence that deficits in the numbers and/or …

Prevention of acute and chronic allograft rejection with CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T lymphocytes

O Joffre, T Santolaria, D Calise, TA Saati, D Hudrisier… - Nature medicine, 2008 - nature.com
A major challenge in transplantation medicine is controlling the very strong immune
responses to foreign antigens that are responsible for graft rejection. Although …

CD4+Foxp3+ regulatory T cell therapy in transplantation

Q Tang, JA Bluestone, SM Kang - Journal of molecular cell …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are long-lived cells that suppress immune responses in vivo in a
dominant and antigen-specific manner. Therefore, therapeutic application of Tregs to control …

Regulatory T cells in solid organ transplantation

M Atif, F Conti, G Gorochov, YH Oo… - Clinical & translational …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The induction of graft tolerance remains the holy grail of transplantation. This is important as
chronic allograft dysfunction and the side effects of immunosuppression regimens place a …

Allorecognition pathways in transplant rejection and tolerance

JM Ali, EM Bolton, JA Bradley, GJ Pettigrew - Transplantation, 2013 - journals.lww.com
With the advent of cellular therapies, it has become clear that the success of future therapies
in prolonging allograft survival will require an intimate understanding of the allorecognition …

Germinal center alloantibody responses are mediated exclusively by indirect-pathway CD4 T follicular helper cells

TM Conlon, K Saeb-Parsy, JL Cole… - The Journal of …, 2012 - journals.aai.org
The durable alloantibody responses that develop in organ transplant patients indicate long-
lived plasma cell output from T-dependent germinal centers (GCs), but which of the two …

CD4+ CD25+ T regulatory cells in transplantation tolerance: 25 years on

BM Hall - Transplantation, 2016 - journals.lww.com
In the 1970s, the capacity of Tcells to inhibit immunity and those from transplant tolerant
hosts to transfer alloantigenspecific suppression to lymphopenic recipients was described …

[HTML][HTML] T-cell alloimmunity and chronic allograft dysfunction

N Safinia, B Afzali, K Atalar, G Lombardi, RI Lechler - Kidney international, 2010 - Elsevier
Solid organ transplantation is the standard treatment to improve both the quality of life and
survival in patients with various end-stage organ diseases. The primary barrier against …

The importance of the indirect pathway of allorecognition in clinical transplantation

MR Gökmen, G Lombardi, RI Lechler - Current opinion in immunology, 2008 - Elsevier
The immune system mounts a response to non-self transplanted tissue through a number of
mechanisms. The indirect pathway of allorecognition, in which cells of the adaptive immune …