ReviewTransplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation2024
NK Cells: Not Just Followers But Also Initiators of Chronic Vascular Rejection.
Review in Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07718308 (A Multicenter Exploratory Clinical Study of Targeted NK Cell Inhibition for Transplant Kidney Chronic Active Antibody-Mediated Rejection), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers.
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A Multicenter Exploratory Clinical Study of Targeted NK Cell Inhibition for Transplant Kidney Chronic Active Antibody-Mediated Rejection (caABMR): Single Induction With CD38 Monoclonal Antibody Followed by Sequential Maintenance With Azathioprine
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Unsupervised Immune Profiling Identifies Distinct Post-Transplant T-Cell Clusters Associated with Kidney Allograft Function.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Immunomodulatory Strategies for Managing Viral Infections in Solid Organ Transplantation: Progress and Challenges.Current microbiology · 2026Review
- Dual inhibition of mTOR and calcineurin pathways mitigates missing self-induced NK cell-mediated microvascular rejection.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Plasma exchange combined with anti-B-cell therapy enables comparable outcomes between DSA-positive and DSA-negative aplastic anemia after haplo-HSCT: a propensity-score-matched cohort study.Annals of hematology · 2026Article
- The Top 12 Most Impactful Papers in Clinical Transplantation in 2025: TI Editors' Choice.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026Article
- Not all antibodies are created equal: total IgG glycosylation and severity of antibody-mediated rejection in kidney transplantation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026Article
- One tool, multiple gains: anti-CD38 therapy in antibody-mediated rejection.Clinical kidney journal · 2025Article
- Antibody-mediated rejection-treatment standard.Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association · 2025Review
- Targeting CD38 in Antibody-Mediated Rejection.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025Review
- Shedding Light on Microvascular Inflammation: Understanding Outcomes, But What Sparks the Flame?Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2024Article
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Abstract
Chronic graft rejection represents a significant threat to long-term graft survival. Early diagnosis, understanding of the immunological mechanisms and appropriate therapeutic management are essential to improve graft survival and quality of life for transplant patients. Knowing which immune cells are responsible for chronic vascular rejection would allow us to provide effective and appropriate treatment for these patients. It is now widely accepted that natural killer (NK) cells play an important role in chronic vascular rejection. They can either initiate chronic vascular rejection by recognizing missing self on the graft or be recruited by donor-specific antibodies to destroy the graft during antibody-mediated rejection. Whatever the mechanisms of activation of NK cells, they need to be primed to become fully activated and damaging to the graft. A better understanding of the signaling pathways involved in NK cell priming and activation would pave the way for the development of new therapeutic strategies to cure chronic vascular rejection. This review examines the critical role of NK cells in the complex context of chronic vascular rejection.
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