In a list exchange (LE), the intended recipient in an incompatible pair receives priority on the deceased donor waitlist (DD-waitlist) after the paired incompatible donor donates a kidney to a DD-waitlist candidate. A nondirected donor's (ND-D) kidney is usually transplanted directly to a DD-waitlist candidate. These two established practices would help even more transplant candidates if they w...

The a-thalassemic mouse has a hereditary microcytic anemia. almost certainly has a shortened RBC life span. and is a potential candidate for cell replacement therapy. In a routine study of bone marrow repopulating capacity using hemoglobin as a cell marker. normal donor marrow cells. but not a-thalassemic donor marrow cells. completely replaced the host cells. Further analysis showed that at le...

Renal transplantation from living kidney donors is still relatively marginal in most of the European countries. However, this source of kidney grafts may help to overcome in part the organ donor shortage of cadaveric donors. The living donor strategy implies correct and objective information about donation risks and completely free acceptance of the living candidate of the donation. In this pap...

UNLABELLED The purpose of donor evaluation for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is to discover medical conditions that could increase the donor postoperative risk of complications and to determine whether the donor can yield a suitable graft for the recipient. We report the outcomes of LDLT donor candidates evaluated in a large multicenter study of LDLT. The records of a...

Over 40% of countries around the world have adopted limits on campaign contributions to curb influence money in politics. Yet, we limited knowledge whether and how these achieve this goal. Using a regression discontinuity design that exploits institutional rules contribution Colombian municipalities, show looser increase number public contracts assigned donors elected candidate. This is explain...

The donor/acceptor weight ratio is crucial for photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). Here, we systematically investigate the behaviors PM6:Y6 with different stoichiometries. It found that tolerant to PM6 contents ranging from 10 60 wt %. Especially an impressive efficiency over 10% has been achieved in dilute donor % enabled by efficient charge generation, electron/hole transp...

Under the auspices of the United Network for Organ Sharing, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation, a meeting was convened on May 25, 2006, in Washington, DC, to develop guidelines for the psychosocial evaluation of prospective living kidney donors who have neither a biologic nor longstanding emotional relationship with the transplant candidate. ...

Genomic islands (GIs) are chunks of genomic fragments that are acquired from nongenealogical organisms through horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Current researches on studying donor-recipient relationships for HGT are limited at a gene level. As more GIs have been identified and verified, the way of studying donor-recipient relationships can be better modeled by using GIs rather than individual g...