Preclinical Strategies for Tolerance to Islet Allografts

Kenyon, Norma Sue

Abstract

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
• Type: Research Project (R01)
• Project #: 5R01DK055178-03
• Application #: 6489724
• Study Section: Surgery, Anesthesiology and Trauma Study Section (SAT)
• Program Officer: Appel, Michael C
• Project Start: 2000-02-01
• Project End: 2003-12-31
• Budget Start: 2002-01-01
• Budget End: 2002-12-31
• Support Year: 3
• Fiscal Year: 2002
• Total Cost: $649,703

Institution

• Name: University of Miami School of Medicine
• Department: Internal Medicine/Medicine
• Type: Schools of Medicine
• City: Miami
• State: FL
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 33146

Publications

Han, Dongmei; Berman, Dora M; Willman, Melissa et al. (2010) Choice of immunosuppression influences cytomegalovirus DNAemia in cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis) islet allograft recipients. Cell Transplant 19:1547-61

Han, Dongmei; Berman, Dora M; Kenyon, Norma S (2007) Sequence-specific analysis of microchimerism by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction in same-sex nonhuman primates after islet and bone marrow transplantation. Transplantation 84:1677-85

Han, Dongmei; Leith, Jenifer; Alejandro, Rodolfo et al. (2005) Peripheral blood cytotoxic lymphocyte gene transcript levels differ in patients with long-term type 1 diabetes compared to normal controls. Cell Transplant 14:403-9

Han, Dongmei; Xu, Xiumin; Pastori, Ricardo L et al. (2002) Elevation of cytotoxic lymphocyte gene expression is predictive of islet allograft rejection in nonhuman primates. Diabetes 51:562-6