An experimental model is presented demonstrating that penetrating corneal grafts in the rabbit may be rejected by passive transfer into the anterior chamber of specifically sensitized lymphoid cells. Destruction of histo-incompatible corneal endothelium is always marked by the formation of focal pock-like areas of damage in this system, rather than by the typical moving line of rejecting endoth...

OBJECTIVE To describe the first case of IVF pregnancy in a pancreas-kidney recipient. DESIGN Case report. SETTING Reproductive Medicine Department, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France. INTERVENTION(S) In vitro fertilization in a pancreas-kidney recipient. PATIENT(S) A 39 year-old nulliparous woman, with primary infertility and a history of pancreas-kidney transplant at 29 years of age...

be critical to prevent attachment of pathogen. BF production increased or remained unchanged in the presence of amikacin. Due to toxicity concerns and variation in resistance patterns, minocycline is a viable treatment option against A. baumannii. Additional studies are warranted. Disclosures. K. LaPlante, Merck: Grant Investigator, Grant recipient. Pfizer: Grant Investigator, Grant recipient. ...

Based on clinical observations, we have previously shown in a murine model that recipient leukocyte infusion (RLI) induces a host-versus-graft reaction in mixed bone marrow chimeras and that rejection of donor cells leads to a specific antitumor response against recipient malignancies. This response is dependent on T cells and IFN-gamma. We investigated the role of NKT cells (NKTs) in this phen...

Donor mesenchymal stem cells could prolong vascularized composite allotransplant (VCA) survival in our previous study.However, recipient adipose tissue is easier to harvest than donor tissue for pre-conditioning modulation. Hence, this study investigated the efficacy of recipient autologous adipose-derived stem cells (rASCs) for VCA survival. The heterotopic hind-limb transplantation from femal...

We have designed an in vitro system using mammalian nuclear extracts, or fractions derived from them, that can restore the sequences missing at double-strand breaks (gaps) or in deletions. The recombination substrates consist of (i) recipient DNA, pSV2neo with gaps or deletions ranging from 70 to 390 bp in the neo sequence, and (ii) donor DNAs with either complete homology to the recipient (pSV...

BACKGROUND Local ischemia before the development of recipient circulation may contribute to the highly variable long-term results of fat grafting. Remote ischemic preconditioning before adipose procurement augments the retention of fat grafts and limits subsequent liposclerosis. However, there is no literature examining what role remote ischemic preconditioning has on the fat graft recipient si...

There is a paucity of literature examining recipient-donor obesity matching on liver transplantation outcomes. The United Network for Organ Sharing database was queried for first-time recipients of liver transplant whose age was ≥18 between January 2003 and September 2013. Outcomes including patient and graft survival at 30 days, 1 year, and 5 years and overall, liver retransplantation, and len...

Metastasis into a thyroid neoplasm-tumor-to-tumor metastasis-is exceedingly rare. We describe the 28th documented case of a tumor metastatic to a thyroid neoplasm and review the literature on tumor-to-tumor metastasis involving a thyroid neoplasm as recipient. All cases showed a recipient thyroid neoplasm with an abrupt transition to a morphologically distinct neoplasm. Metastasis into primary ...