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Literatur
Bellisola et al. (2006)
Monitoring of Cellular Immunity by Interferon-Gamma Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Spot Assay in Kidney Allograft Recipients: Preliminary Results of a Longitudinal Study
Transplantation; 38; 4; 1014-1017
Grosse-Wilde u. Ottinger (1998)
Immunologische Aspekte der Transplantation-Organverpflanzung und Gewebeverträglichkeit
Essner Unikate 10/1998
Heeger et al. (1999)
Pretransplant Frequency of Donor-Specific, IFN- g -Producing Lymphocytes Is a Manifestation of Immunologic Memory and Correlates with the Risk of Posttransplant Rejection Episodes
Abstract
While matching for MHC Ags improves renal allograft survival, closely matched grafts sometimes fail due to rejection, and poorly matched allografts are often well tolerated by the recipient. The severity of the rejection process may artially depend on the presence of environmentally primed T cells in the recipient that cross-react with donor Ags. To test for the presence of primed, donor-specific T cells in humans before transplantation, we used an enzyme-linked immunospot assay for detection of allospecific cytokines produced by individual human PBLs. We demonstrate that this approach detects cytokine production at single cell resolution and detects production of IFN-g only when there is defined immunologic priming, thus representing a measure of primed donor-specific immunity. Because the environmental Ag exposure of the recipient is not a function of the HLA mismatch between donor and potential recipient, the number of HLA mismatches may not correlate with the frequency of pretransplant, donor-specific IFN-g-producing PBLs. Studies of donor-specific IFN-g-producing lymphocytes in a cohort of patients being evaluated for renal transplantation corroborated this hypothesis. Moreover, for recipients of both living and cadaver renal allografts, the pretransplant frequency of donor-specific memory cells correlated with the posttransplant risk of developing acute rejection episodes. This improved ability to define the strength of the allospecific immune response by enzyme-linked immunospot assay may allow improved pairing of recipients with donors and identification of kidney allograft donor-recipient pairs at high risk for acute rejection, thus permitting targeted interventions aimed at prolonging graft survival.
The Journal of Immunology, 1999, 163: 2267-2275.
Nickel et al. (2004)
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Spot Assay For Donor Reactive Interferon-Gamma Producing Cells Identifies T-Cell Presensitiziation and Correlates With Graft Function at 6 and 12 Months in Renal Transplant Recipients
Transplantation; 2004; 78; 1640-1646
Ohnishi et al. (2005)
Evaluation of cytomegalievirus- specific T-Cell reconstitution in patients after various allogeinic haemetopoeitic stem cell transplantation using interferon-gamma enzyme-linked immunospot and human leucocyte antigen tetramer assay with an immun dominant T-cell epitope
BJH;2005;131;472-479
Ottinger et al. (2006)
Entwicklungen in der hämatopoetischen Stammzelltransplantation
Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2006;103(37);A2381-6
Presber (2005)
Dissertation: Bestimmung spenderreaktiver, IFN?-produzierender Zellen vor und nach Nierentransplantation im ELISpot Assay - Zusammenhang mit frühen akuten Rejektionen und mit dem klinischen Ausgang
Medizinischen Fakultät der Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Randhawa et al. (2006)
Detection of CD8+ T cells sensitized to BK virus large T antigen in healthy volunteers and kidney transplant recipients
Abstract:
BK virus (BKV) infections after renal transplantation are increasingly recognized. Development of immune monitoring strategies against BKV requires definition of antigenic epitopes. Hence, T cells from HLA-A02-positive healthy subjects and kidney transplant recipients were stimulated by BKV lysate pulsed on mature autologous dendritic cells and screened against four different T antigen peptides or against BKV lysate. IFN-gamma production was measured by ELISPOT assays. The peptide BKV362-371 (MLTERFNHIL) was naturally processed and recognized by five of six healthy subjects (39 +/- 11 IFN-gamma spots/100,000 cells) and five of seven kidney transplant recipients (21 +/- 12 IFN-gamma spots). Less frequent and weaker CD8+ T-cell responses were detected against three other peptides. Thus, BKV large T antigen is a target for CD8+ T-cell immunity. T-antigen-specific T-cytotoxic cells circulate in healthy blood donors, implying that transient expression of T antigen presumably occurs at sites of viral latency and helps maintain a constant pool of circulating CD8+ T memory cells.
Hum Immunol. 2006 Apr-May;67(4-5):298-302 |