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Transpl Int
March 2025
Department of General Surgery, Demiroglu Bilim University and Group Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Kidney donation is a safe procedure for carefully screened donors. The growing shortage of organs and improved survival rates among recipients of living donor transplants have broadened the criteria for acceptable living donors, including older individuals and those with pre-existing health conditions. Consequently, ensuring both the short- and long-term safety of living donors is of paramount importance.
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May 2025
Department of General Surgery, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Background: Inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs) are inherited diseases causing significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in childhood. Liver transplantation (LT) can be curative or partially effective for these diseases. LT for IEMs has increased, making IEMs the second most common reason for pediatric LT after biliary atresia.
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March 2025
Histocompatibility and Infectious Disease Testing Laboratory, Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Itasca, IL; Department of Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Electronic address:
Unexpected transmission of donor-derived diseases, including infections and malignancies, through organ transplantation are occasionally observed and reported. Subclinical, or otherwise undiagnosed, hematological malignancies in potential donors are rare events and typically not identifiable via standard donor evaluation or laboratory testing. Flow cytometric crossmatching (FCXM) is a specialized assay routinely performed in clinical histocompatibility laboratories for the evaluation of immunological compatibility between the recipients and the organ donors through the detection of donor-specific antibodies.
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February 2025
HIV Immunopathogenesis Laboratory, BEAT-HIV Delaney Collaboratory, Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Natural killer (NK) cells can efficiently mediate antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) of antibody coated target cells via the low-affinity Fc-receptor, CD16, but cannot retain antibodies over time. To increase antibody retention and facilitate targeted ADCC, we genetically modified human NK cells with the high-affinity Fc receptor, CD64, so that we could preload them with HIV-specific broadly neutralizing antibodies (BNAbs) and enhance their capacity to target HIV-infected cells via ADCC. Purified NK cells from the peripheral blood of control donors or persons living with HIV were activated with interleukin (IL)-2/IL-15/IL-21 cytokines and transduced with a lentivirus encoding CD64.
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March 2025
Department of Health Services Management & Organisation, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Living kidney donors voluntarily donate one of their kidneys to someone suffering from end-stage kidney disease. Transplantation is a life-saving opportunity for these patients and generally provides an increase in quality of life. A major goal of research and practice related to living kidney donation concerns the safety of the donor.
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