Monitoring tolerance after human liver transplantation

Grégoire Wieërs, Jérémie Gras, Christophe Bourdeaux, Dinh Quang Truong, Dominique Latinne, Raymond Reding

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Abstract

The validation of reliable, non-invasive immunological assays evaluating anti-donor responsiveness in allograft recipients would provide a clinically relevant tool for the early detection of ongoing rejection process as well as for the identification of operational tolerance in the long term. A sequential approach towards immunological monitoring of allografts is proposed in this review: (i) investigations exploring the initial donor-recipient alloresponses, including the analysis of the cytokine network; (ii) investigations regarding graft acceptance and operational tolerance in long-term transplant patients, consisting in the analysis of regulatory T cells and of circulating precursors of dendritic cells, in the measurement of T cell alloreactivity as well as in the study of T cell receptor repertoires. Beside the conventional in vivo and in vitro immunological techniques, the potential applications of molecular imaging in transplantation also deserve further exploration, with particular respect to allograft immune monitoring. Enforced collaboration between transplant clinicians and immunologists will be required to develop the translational research protocols required for the development of immunological monitoring, within an international multicentric network.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)83-93
Number of pages11
JournalTransplant Immunology
Volume17
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Human
  • Liver
  • Monitoring
  • Review
  • Tolerance
  • Transplantation

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