Main indications for liver transplantation in the pediatric population include biliary atresia and inherited metabolic diseases. The present study evaluated whether there are differences between pediatric patients undergoing living-related liver t...
Lin Xie   Naotsugu Ichimaru   Miwa Morita   Jiajie Chen   Ping Zhu   Jihong Wang   Peter Urbanellis   Itay Shalev   Shizuko Nagao   Atsushi Sugioka   Liang Zhong   Norio Nonomura   Shiro Takahara   Gary A. Levy   Xiao-Kang Li   
LIVER TRANSPLANTATION 18(4) 444-454 2012年4月
Here we examined whether the expression of a novel immunoregulatory gene set could be used to predict outcomes in murine models of rapamycin-induced cardiac tolerance, spontaneous hepatic tolerance, and cardiac rejection. The expression of the imm...
Kan Nakagawa   Naoki Tanaka   Miwa Morita   Atsushi Sugioka   Shin-ichi Miyagawa   Frank J. Gonzalez   Toshifumi Aoyama   
JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY 56(3) 586-594 2012年3月
Background & Aims: Graft dysfunction is one of the major complications after liver transplantation, but its precise mechanism remains unclear. Since steatotic liver grafts are susceptible to post-transplant dysfunction, and peroxisome proliferator...