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ReviewCellular immunology2020

Extracellular vesicles in allograft rejection and tolerance.

Gilles Benichou, Mengchuan Wang, Kaitlan Ahrens, Joren C Madsen

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Review in Cellular immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Exosomes in ocular graft-versus-host disease: an overview.International journal of ophthalmology · 2026
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  9. Mesenchymal stromal cell extracellular vesicles reduceAmerican journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2025
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  15. Let-7b-5p loaded Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Extracellular Vesicles reducebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  16. Extracellular Vesicles and Immune Activation in Solid Organ Transplantation: The Impact of Immunosuppression.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2025
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  18. Unlocking Transplant Tolerance with Biomaterials.Advanced healthcare materials · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gilles BenichouCenter for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. Electronic address: gbenichou@partners.org.
Mengchuan WangCenter for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Kaitlan AhrensCenter for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Joren C MadsenCenter for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. Electronic address: Jcmadsen@Partners.Org.
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

XENOGENIC TOLERANCE IN MICEP01HL018646 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MADSEN, JOREN C · 1985 to 2019
$37.5M
Project 3: The Role of Erythropoietin in Kidney Transplant ToleranceP01AI123086 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI COLVIN, ROBERT B · 2016 to 2020
$10.6M
Mixed chimerism induced tolerance in heart recipients requires donor kidney cotransplantationU01AI131470 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MADSEN, JOREN C · 2017 to 2022
$5.6M
Exosomes and Donor Antigen Cross-dressing in Pancreatic Islet TransplantationR01DK115618 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BENICHOU, GILLES A · 2018 to 2021
$1.8M
Exosomes and Donor MHC Cross-Dressing of Recipient Cells in AllotransplantationR21AI124096 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BENICHOU, GILLES A · 2016 to 2017
$463k
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL018646NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI123086NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI124096NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI131470NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK115618
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, ectosomes and apoptotic vesicles, play an essential role in communication between cells of the innate and adaptive immune systems. Recent studies showed that EVs released after transplantation of allogeneic tissues and organs are involved in the immune recognition and response leading to rejection or tolerance in mice. After skin, pancreatic islet, and solid organ transplantation, donor-derived EVs were shown to initiate direct inflammatory alloresponses by T cells leading to acute rejection. This occurred through presentation of intact allogeneic MHC molecules on recipient antigen presenting cells (MHC cross-dressing) and subsequent activation of T cells via semi-direct allorecognition. On the other hand, some studies have documented the role of EVs in maternal tolerance of fetal alloantigens during pregnancy and immune privilege associated with spontaneous tolerance of liver allografts in laboratory rodents. The precise nature of the EVs, which are involved in rejection or tolerance, and the cells which produce them, is still unclear. Nevertheless, several reports showed that EVs released in the blood and urine by allografts can be used as biomarkers of rejection. This article reviews current knowledge on the contribution of EVs in allorecognition by T cells and discusses some mechanisms underlying their influence on T cell alloimmunity in allograft rejection or tolerance.

Indexed as

Adaptive ImmunityAllograftsAnimalsAntigen PresentationAntigen-Presenting CellsBiomarkersChimerismExtracellular VesiclesFemaleGraft RejectionHeterograftsHumansImmunity, InnateIsoantigensMaleMaternal-Fetal ExchangeBiomarkersIsoantigensAllograftsExosomesRejectiontolerance

Identifiers

PMID32087929
PMCPMC7231511
OpenAlexW3004441393

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