TRANSPLANTATION:
Official Journal of the Transplantation Society

71(08) · April 27, 2001

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Cytoprotection of pancreatic islets before and soon after transplantation by gene transfer of the anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 gene.
J.L. Contreras, G. Bilbao, C.A. Smyth, X.L. Jiang, D.E. Eckhoff, S.M. Jenkins, F.T. Thomas, D.T. Curiel, and J.M. Thomas

 
EXPERIMENTAL TRANSPORTATION

Diabetic rats transplanted with adult porcine islets and immunosuppressed with cyclospor-ine A, mycophenolate mofetil, and leflunomide remain normoglycemic for up to 100 days.
L. Wennberg, Z. Song, W. Bennet, J. Zhang, S. Nava, B. Sundberg, S. Bari, C.G. Groth, and O. Korsgren
Protective effect of angiotensin II type I receptor antagonist, CV-11974, on ischemia and reperfusion injury of the liver.
H. Masuko, M.B. Jin, H. Horiuchi, T. Suzuki, M. Taniguchi, T. Shimamura, M. Fukai, S. Magata, K. Ogata, H. Ishikawa, M. Fujita, K. Nagashima, H. Furukawa, and S. Todo
Attenuation of ischemia and reperfusion injury of canine livers by inhibition of type II phospholipase A2 with LY329722.
K. Ogata, M.B. Jin, M. Taniguchi, T. Suzuki, T. Shimamura, N. Kitagawa, S. Magata, M. Fukai, H. Ishikawa, T. Ono, H. Furukawa, M. Fujita, and S. Todo
Improved hepatic microcirculation by human soluble urinary thrombomodulin in the xeno-perfused porcine liver.
M. Shiraishi, T. Oshiro, K. Taira, E. Nozato, M. Nagahama, H. Nomura, Y. Takushi, H. Sugawa, andY.Muto


CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION 

Pregnancy outcome after cyclosporine therapy during pregnancy: a meta-analysis.
B. Bar-Oz, R. Hackman, T. Einarson, and G. Koren
A technique for presenting risk and outcome data to potential living renal transplant donors.
R.W. Steiner and B. Gert
Lack of utility of intestinal fatty acid binding protein levels in predicting intestinal allograft rejection.
S.S. Kaufman, E.R. Lyden, W.H. Marks, J. Lieberman, D.L. Sudan, I.J. Fox, B.W. Shaw Jr., S.P. Horslen, and A.N. Langnas
Public attitudes toward kidney donation by friends and altruistic strangers in the United States.
A. Spital
Risk factors for posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) in pediatric kidney trans-plantation: a report of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study (NAPRTCS).
V.R. Dharnidharka, E.K. Sullivan, D.M. Stablein, A.H. Tejani, and W.E. Harmon
Sex and ethnicity may chiefly influence the interaction of fluconazole with calcineurin inhibitors.
A.S. Mathis, T. DiRenzo, G.S. Friedman, B. Kaplan, and R. Adamson
Reduction in immunosuppression as initial therapy for posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder: analysis of prognostic variables and long-term follow-up of 42 adult patients.
D.E. Tsai, C.L. Hardy, J.E. Tomaszewski, R.M. Kotloff, K.M. Oltoff, B.G. Somer, S.J. Schuster, D.L. Porter, K.T. Montone, and E.A. Stadtmauer
Steroid-free immunosuppression in renal transplantation: a long-term follow-up of 100 consecutive patients.
S.A. Birkeland
Mycophenolate mofetil for the treatment of a first acute renal allograft rejection: three-year follow-up.
The Mycophenolate Mofetil Acute Renal Rejection Study Group
Outcome of kidney transplants in patients known to be flow cytometry crossmatch positive.
J.C. Scornik, W. Clapp, P.R. Patton, W.J. Van der Werf, A.W. Hemming, A.I. Reed, and R.J. Howard
Reasons for long-term use of steroid in primary adult liver transplantation under tacrolimus.
A. Jain, R. Kashyap, W. Marsh, S. Rohal, A. Khana, and J.J. Fung
Impact of donor-specific antibodies on chronic rejection occurrence and graft loss in renal transplantation: posttransplant analysis using flow cytometric techniques.
A. Piazza, E. Poggi, L. Borrelli, S. Servetti, P.I. Monaco, O. Buonomo, M. Valeri, N. Torlone, D. Adorno, and C.U. Casciani
Soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) after kidney transplantation: the origin and role of urinary sICAM-1?
A-M. Teppo, E. von Willebrand, E. Honkanen, J. Ahonen, and C. Gro¨ nhagen-Riska
Prevalence of antibodies to human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) in Saudi Arabian patients with and without renal failure.
M. Almuneef, S. Nimjee, K. Khoshnood, G. Miller, and M.O. Rigsby


IMMUNOBIOLOGY 

Long-term allograft acceptance induced by single dose anti-leukocyte common antigen (RT7) antibody in the rat.
S. Ko, M.D. Jäger, T.-Y. Tsui, A. Deiwick, A. Dinkel, F. Rohde, M.H. Dahlke, O. Lauth, K. Wonigeit, and H.J. Schlitt
A CD4+ T cell clone selected from a CML patient after donor lymphocyte infusion recog-nizes BCR-ABL breakpoint peptides but not tumor cells.
B. Vasir, J-C Jonas, G.M. Steil, J. Hollister-Lock, W. Hasenkamp, A. Sharma, S. Bonner-Weir, and G.C. Weir
Apoptosis in chronic rejection of human cardiac allografts.
B. Xu, L.I. Sakkas, C.A. Slachta, B.I. Goldman, V. Jeevanandam, E.L. Oleszak, and C.D. Platsoucas
CD8+ lymphocytes augment chronic rejection in a MHC class II mismatched model.
M.P. Fischbein, J. Yun, H. Laks, Y. Irie, M.C. Fishbein, M. Espejo, B. Bonavida, and A. Ardehali
Enhanced maturation of porcine neonatal pancreatic cell clusters with growth factors fails to improve transplantation outcome.
M.D. Lopez-Avalos, K. Tatarkiewicz, A. Sharma, S. Bonner-Weir, and G.C. Weir


IMMUNOGENETICS 

Significance of a T-lymphocytotoxic crossmatch in liver and combined liver-kidney trans-plantation.
U.P. Neumann, M. Lang, A. Moldenhauer, J.M. Langrehr, M. Glanemann, A. Kahl, U. Frei, W.O. Bechstein, and P. Neuhaus


BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS

Clinical Transplantation 

Guillain-Barre Syndrome in organ and bone marrow transplant patients.
K.R. Bulsara, P.W. Baron, J.E. Tuttle-Newhall, P-A. Clavien, and J. Morgenlander
Helicobacter pylori-associated gastric MALT lymphoma in liver transplant recipients..
T.M. Shehab, E.D. Hsi, J.J. Poterucha, N.T. Gunaratnam, and R.J. Fontana

Immunobiology 

Reassuring effect of pravastatin on natural killer cell activity in stable renal transplant patients.
L.M.B. Vaessen, P.P.M.C. van Miert, T. van Gelder, J.N.M. IJzermans, and W. Weimar
Adjunctive Rapamycin and CsA treatment inhibits monocyte/macrophage associated cy-tokins/ chemokines in sensitized cardiac graft recipients.
B.A. Wasowska, X.X. Zheng, T.B. Strom, and J.W. Kupiec-Weglinski


LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Cortical scarring as a variable in the assessment of donor kidney biopsy specimens.
P. Randhawa, L. Nichols, and R. Lee


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