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Donor hypertension increases graft immunogenicity and intensifies chronic changes in long-surviving renal allografts
- Source :
- Transplantation. 77(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Background. Marginal donor organs are used increasingly for transplantation. To define the influences of donor hypertension, we compared the behavior of kidney allografts from hypertensive and normotensive donors in an established rat model of chronic rejection. Methods. Donor hypertension was induced by partial occlusion of the right renal artery with a silver clip. After 10 weeks, the left kidney was removed and transplanted. Normotensive animals served as controls. All recipients were treated with a low dose of cyclosporine for 10 days (1.5 mg/kg). Blood pressure and proteinuria were determined weekly four times after transplantation. To examine the effects of donor hypertension on late events, grafts (n=6/time point) were examined morphologically and by quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analysis at serial intervals. Results. Recipients of kidneys from hypertensive donors developed systemic hypertension in contrast with normotensive controls (P
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Urinary system
Urology
Kidney
Severity of Illness Index
Proinflammatory cytokine
medicine
Animals
Transplantation, Homologous
Right Renal Artery
RNA, Messenger
Kidney transplantation
Transplantation
Proteinuria
business.industry
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Graft Survival
medicine.disease
Kidney Transplantation
Survival Analysis
Rats, Inbred F344
Tissue Donors
Surgery
Rats
Up-Regulation
surgical procedures, operative
Blood pressure
medicine.anatomical_structure
Rats, Inbred Lew
Hypertension
Disease Progression
Cytokines
medicine.symptom
Inflammation Mediators
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00411337
- Volume :
- 77
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transplantation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....25893dbca309297e14aa6f5c41fa1cb6