INTRODUCTION Survival of transplanted patients is generally much better than for those on dialysis. This comparison is, however, incorrect, as in order to be accepted for renal transplantation the patient has to be in a relatively good condition and in addition transplanted patients are usually younger. We compared survival of all renal replacement therapy (RRT) patients who had undergone an id...

Tooth autotransplantation defines as transition of one tooth from one position to another, in same individual. It is a biological procedure in which teeth have the potential to induce alveolar bone growth. It can be applied in patients before adolescence growth is finished. It significantly reduces time and cost compared to implants. Healing rapidly occurs and function is regained almost immedi...

To understand regulation of transplanted hepatocyte proliferation in the normal liver, we used genetically marked rat or mouse cells. Hosts were subjected to liver injury by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), to liver regeneration by a two-thirds partial hepatectomy, and to hepatocellular DNA synthesis by infusion of hepatocyte growth factor for comparative analysis. Transplanted hepatocytes were doc...

Twenty-two patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in second or subsequent remission and 26 with ALL in relapse were given cyclophosphamide (60 mg/kg on each of 2 days), total-body irradiation (920 rad). and a marrow transplant from an HLA-identical sibling. With a minimum follow-up of more than 1 yr. an actuarial analysis shows a decrease in death from nonleukemic causes (p 0.07) and ...

Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by progressive neuronal loss in hippocamp. Epidermal neural crest stem cells (EPI-NCSC) can differentiate into neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of transplanting EPI-NCSC into AD rat model. Methods: Two weeks after induction of AD by injection of Amyloid-β 1-40 into CA1 area of ra...

The treatment of animals with non-neoplastic or neoplastic tissue before or after tumor transplantation inhibited the growth of transplanted tumor cells. This phenomenon was most clearly demonstrated when a sub-effective dose of chemotherapeutic agent was administered. In animals bearing a spontaneous tumor, the growth of auto-transplanted tumor was inhibited as compared with that of the same t...

Gupta, Sanjeev, Pankaj Rajvanshi, Emma Aragona, Chang-Don Lee, Purnachandra R. Yerneni, and Robert D. Burk. Transplanted hepatocytes proliferate differently after CCl4 treatment and hepatocyte growth factor infusion. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 39): G629– G638, 1999.—To understand regulation of transplanted hepatocyte proliferation in the normal liver, we used genetically ...

AIM ABCA1 protects against atherosclerosis by facilitating cholesterol efflux from macrophage foam cells in the arterial wall to extracellular apolipoprotein (apo) A-I. In contrast to apoA-I, apoE is secreted by macrophages and can, like apoA-I, induce ABCA1-mediated cholesterol efflux. Yet, the combined effect of macrophage ABCA1 and apoE on lesion development is unexplored. METHODS AND RESU...