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ReviewAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2020

Mechanisms of organ transplant injury mediated by B cells and antibodies: Implications for antibody-mediated rejection.

Anita S Chong

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Review in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
43citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

43 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Immuno-imaging in solid organ transplantation.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2026
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  12. Expanding role of antibodies in kidney transplantation.World journal of transplantation · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anita S ChongSection of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0460-0196
University of Chicago · US

Funding

T cell mechanisms that distinguish robust tolerance from metastable allograft acceptance and failed tolerance (Project 2)P01AI097113 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Maria-Luisa Alegre, Anita S Chong · 2012 to 2026
$23.8M
Intrarenal B cells in acute kidney allograft rejectionR01AI148705 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHONG, ANITA S, CLARK, MARCUS RAMSAY · 2020 to 2024
$4.0M
Deconstructing B cell transplantation toleranceR01AI142747 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHONG, ANITA S · 2019 to 2022
$2.2M
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases P01AI097113National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases R01AI142747National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases R01AI148705NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI097113NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI142747NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI148705
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent adjustments to the histological diagnosis and the introduction of molecular classification are providing renewed support for the paradigm that antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) is an important clinical problem for which there is an urgent need for better therapies. Acute ABMR is observed when the graft is exposed to rapid increases in high-titer donor-specific antibodies (DSA) that are most often generated as anamnestic responses in sensitized recipients or de novo responses in nonsensitized patients who are nonadherent. Chronic ABMR is associated with slower increases in DSA, which may be high or low titer and transient or persistent. These DSA elicit cycles of injury and repair that manifest as multilamination of the peritubular capillary basement membrane or arteriopathy manifesting as intimal fibrosis. Mitigating the problem of AMBR requires the anamnestic and de novo DSA responses to be prevented and established DSA responses to be reversed. To this end, a better understanding of the immunobiology of DSA production is necessary and also the development of assays capable of detecting early humoral immune responses.Recent advances in understanding the immunobiology of B cells and areas requiring further investigation that might lead to new therapies or better diagnosis are discussed in this review.

Indexed as

Kidney TransplantationOrgan TransplantationB-LymphocytesGraft RejectionHumansIsoantibodiesIsoantibodiesaccommodationalloantibodyalloantigenB cell biologyeditorial/ personal viewpointimmunobiologyimmunosuppression/ immune modulationrejection: antibody-mediated (ABMR)

Identifiers

PMID32538534
PMCPMC7482418
OpenAlexW3034963480

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