In efforts to minimize the chronic administration of immunosuppression (IS) drugs in transplantation and autoimmune disease, various cell-based tolerogenic therapies, including the use of regulatory or tolerogenic dendritic cells (tolDC) have been developed. These DC-based therapies aim to harness the inherent immunoregulatory potential of these professional antigen-presenting cells. In this sh...

Tolerogenic DCs (tolDCs) are being researched as a promising intervention strategy also in autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes (T1D). T1D is a T-cell-mediated, organ-specific disease with several well-defined and rather specific autoantigens, i.e., proinsulin, insulin, glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 (GAD65), that have been used in animal as well as human intervention trials in attempt...

Dendritic cells (DC) are established T-cell immunity inducers [1], and are also being viewed increasingly as T-cell tolerance mediators [2, 3]. Normally, DCs regulate immune homeostasis by maintaining the balance between T cell immunity and tolerance. Thus far, DC-based immunotherapy has been primarily a consideration in the field of cancer therapy (for the treatment of cancers using fully matu...

conclusions vancomycin nephrotoxicity is common but usually reversible and has readily manageable adverse effect. urine kim-1 was not more accurate than serum or urine creatinine in detecting vancomycin nephrotoxicity in our study population. results thirteen out of the 52 recruited patients (25%) developed nephrotoxicity, with a mean ± standard deviation onset of 11.46 ± 7.56 days. furosemide ...

BACKGROUND Dendritic cells (DCs), which are biased toward a tolerogenic profile, play a pivotal role in tissue-remodeling processes and angiogenesis at the maternal-fetal interface. Here, we analyzed the effect of trophoblast cells on the functional profile of DCs to gain insight on the tolerogenic mechanisms underlying the human placental-maternal dialog at early stages of gestation. METHODS...

LPS-activated B cells, transduced with IgG fusion proteins, are highly tolerogenic APCs. To analyze the mechanisms for this B cell-delivered gene therapy, we first followed the fate of CFSE-labeled B cell blasts. These cells primarily localized to the spleen, where a small population persisted for at least 1 mo after injection. By day 7 after injection, approximately 95% of the transduced cells...

incidence of rejection compared with other solid organs, and spontaneous acceptance of the liver graft with successful discontinuation of immunosuppression has been reported in nearly 20% of LT recipients [10,11]. Multiple studies have suggested the protective effect of the liver allograft in Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation (SLKT) compared with recipients of isolated renal transplants...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that results from a deficient induction or maintenance of tolerance to islet b-cell antigens, allowing the eventual T-cell–mediated destruction of insulin-producing b-cells within the pancreatic islets (1). Under homeostatic conditions, immune tolerance is established by various subsets of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) with toleranceinducing/main...

OBJECTIVE Autoimmune diabetes in the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse model results from a breakdown of T-cell tolerance caused by impaired tolerogenic dendritic cell development and regulatory T-cell (Treg) differentiation. Re-establishment of the Treg pool has been shown to confer T-cell tolerance and protection against diabetes. Here, we have investigated whether murine thymic stromal lymphopoi...