Extracorporeal Photopheresis Improves Graft Survival in a Full-Mismatch Rat Model of Kidney Transplantation.
Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation(2023)
摘要
Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) is an immunomodulatory therapy based on the infusion of autologous cellular products exposed to ultraviolet light (UV) in the presence of a photosensitizer. The study evaluates the ECP efficacy as induction therapy in a full-mismatch kidney transplant rat model. Dark Agouti to Lewis (DA-L) kidney transplant model has been established. ECP product was obtained from Lewis rat recipients after DA kidney graft transplantation (Lew). Leukocytes of those Lew rats were exposed to 8-methoxy psoralen, and illuminated with UV-A. The ECP doses assessed were 10 × 10 and 100 × 10 cells/time point. Lewis recipients received seven ECP infusions. DA-L model was characterized by the appearance of donor-specific antibodies (DSA) and kidney function deterioration from day three after kidney transplant. The dysfunction progressed rapidly until graft loss (6.1 ± 0.5 days). Tacrolimus at 0.25 mg/kg prolonged rat survival until 11.4 ± 0.7 days ( = 0.0004). In this context, the application of leukocytes from LewDA sensitized rats accelerated the rejection (8.7 ± 0.45, = 0.0012), whereas ECP product at high dose extended kidney graft survival until 26.3 ± 7.3 days, reducing class I and II DSA in surviving rats. ECP treatment increases kidney graft survival in full-mismatch rat model of acute rejection and is a suitable immunomodulatory therapy to be explored in kidney transplantation.
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acute rejection,animal model,extracorporeal photopheresis,induction therapy,kidney transplantation
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