Objective To investigate the association of donor and recipient IL-15 genetic variants with HCC recurrence and prognosis after LT. Methods A total of 112 liver transplant patients with HBV-related HCC were enrolled. IL-15 rs10519613 and rs13122930 were genotyped in donors and recipients. Results Recipient IL-15 rs10519613 polymorphism was found to be significantly related to HCC recurrence ...

Graft-versus-host disease(GVHD) is currently encountered following bone marrow transplantation and transfusion. GVHD associated with transfusion(TA-GVHD) in apparently immunocompetent recipients has been recently reported with increasing frequency. A consistent finding in many of these cases is that the recipient received blood from a donor homozygous for one of the the recipient's HLA haplotyp...

UNLABELLED OBJECTIVE To analyze whether gender influence survival results of kidney transplant grafts and patients.METHODS Systematic review with meta-analysis of cohort studies available on Medline (PubMed), LILACS, CENTRAL, and Embase databases, including manual searching and in the grey literature. The selection of studies and the collection of data were conducted twice by independent review...

Facilitatory effects have been noted between tools and the objects that they act upon (their "action recipients") across several paradigms. However, it has not been convincingly established that the motor system is directly involved in the joint visual processing of these object pairings. Here, we used the attentional blink (AB) paradigm to demonstrate privileged access to perceptual awareness ...

PROBLEM The effect of donor/recipient age disparity on living-donor renal graft function is controversial. The objective of this study is to find new clinical predictors of renal graft function and evaluate the effect of donor/recipient age disparity in our series. METHODS A retrospective review of our institutional renal transplantation database was performed. We calculated the glomerular fi...

Leukocytes have been implicated in ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury of the lung, but the individual role of T cells has not been explored. Recent evidence in mice suggests that T cells may play a role in IR injury. Using a syngeneic (Lewis to Lewis) rat lung transplant model, we observed that recipient CD4(+) T cells infiltrated lung grafts within 1 h of reperfusion and up-regulated the express...

Abstract Previous research has tracked the history of theme-recipient alternation (or: “dative” alternation) in Chinese, but few studies have embedded their analysis a probabilistic variationist framework. Against this backdrop, we explore language-internal and language-external factors that probabilistically influence between theme-first recipient-first ordering large diachronic corpus Chinese...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery disease is today's most important post-heart transplantation problem after the first perioperative year. Histologically, coronary artery disease is characterized by transplant arteriosclerosis. The current view on this vasculopathy is that vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells from the media of affected arteries proliferate and migrate into the sub-endothelial space (int...

BACKGROUND Challenge of MHC-mismatched murine bone marrow chimeras with recipient-type lymphocytes (recipient lymphocyte infusion) produces antileukemic responses in association with rejection of donor chimerism. In contrast, MHC-matched chimeras resist eradication of donor chimerism by recipient lymphocyte infusion. Here, we investigated lymphohematopoietic host-versus-graft reactivity and ant...

By combining the two notations of ring signature and authenticated encryption together, we introduce a new type of authenticated encryption signature, called ring authenticated encryption, which has the following properties: signer-ambiguity, signer-verifiability, recipient-designation, semantic-security, verification-convertibility, verification-dependence and recipient-ambiguity. We also give...