Background The choice of immunosuppressant (IS) in patients with Takayasu arteritis (TAK) is often arbitrary due to lack comparison studies. Objectives In this retrospective, we aimed compare the efficacy 3 non biologic IS including azathioprine (AZA), mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and methotrexate (MTX) inducing maintaining sustained remission TAK. Methods Patients a diagnosis TAK, attending our...

The subject of transplant immunosuppression has generated significant interest in recent years. Excellent immunosuppression, advances in surgical technique, post-transplantation care, and infection control have resulted in excellent outcomes. There is widespread support for the notion that the fundamental objective in transplant immunology should be the achievement of specific graft toleran...

SW-163A and B, novel immunosuppressants, were isolated from the culture broth of Streptomyces sp. SNA15896. The molecular formulas of SW-163A and B were determined as C34H42N2O12 and C33H40N2O12 based on the HRFAB-MS analysis, respectively. Both compounds were elucidated to be a large ring ester structure through spectroscopic analyses including various NMR measurements. SW-163A and B showed im...

Prodigiosins (PrGs) are a family of promising therapeutic molecules, isolated mostly from Gram-negative bacteria and characterized by a common pyrryldipyrrylmethene structure with varying side chains. They show a broad spectrum of activities such as anti-microbial, anti-malarial, anti-cancer and immunosuppressive. PrGs are attracting increasing attention due to the ongoing research for less tox...

A case of gross skeletal muscle uptake of 18F-FDG during PET is described. The clinical context of immunosuppression after heart and lung transplantation and the absence of any other known association make the former a likely etiologic factor.

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is characterized by a long-standing chronic course with remissions and exacerbations. Previously, patients do not respond to 5-aminosalicylic acid compounds and corticosteroids are considered for colectomies, however, in recent years, alternative treatments emerged for steroid-refractory or steroid-dependent UC. In this review article, we focus on immunomodulators (such ...

Although the immunosuppressive drugs FK506, rapamycin and cyclosporin A have been reported to potentiate transcriptional activation mediated by a non-saturating concentration of the glucocorticoid receptor agonist dexamethasone, the precise mechanism(s) underlying these responses remains unclear. The murine L-929-derived LMCAT cell line stably transfected with the mouse mammary tumor virus prom...