TY - JOUR
T1 - RANTES and MCP-1 chemokine plasma levels in chronic renal transplant dysfunction and chronic renal failure
AU - Corsi, Massimiliano M.
AU - Leone, Giorgio
AU - Fulgenzi, Alessandro
AU - Wasserman, Ken
AU - Leone, Francesco
AU - Ferrero, Maria Elena
PY - 1999/8
Y1 - 1999/8
N2 - Objectives: Procedures to diagnose renal allograft rejection depend on detection of graft dysfunction due to the presence of mononuclear leukocytic infiltrates. Design and methods: In our study, we pursued an immunodiagnostic approach utilizing an ELISA method on plasma samples to monitor patients waiting to undergo transplantation in order to evidence prognostic developments in renal transplantation and, at least, to diagnose renal chronic transplant dysfunction. We analyzed blood levels of two chemokines, RANTES and MCP-1, which are normally overexpressed locally in renal chronic rejection. Results: Our results showed that patients affected by chronic renal failure (and waiting for kidney transplant), as well as kidney-grafted patients affected by chronic transplant dysfunction, had plasma levels of RANTES significantly higher than those of controls (patients without acute or chronic pathologies). Conclusions: Our data suggest a simple method to evaluate the plasmatic presence of RANTES, which could be involved in long- term kidney graft failure.
AB - Objectives: Procedures to diagnose renal allograft rejection depend on detection of graft dysfunction due to the presence of mononuclear leukocytic infiltrates. Design and methods: In our study, we pursued an immunodiagnostic approach utilizing an ELISA method on plasma samples to monitor patients waiting to undergo transplantation in order to evidence prognostic developments in renal transplantation and, at least, to diagnose renal chronic transplant dysfunction. We analyzed blood levels of two chemokines, RANTES and MCP-1, which are normally overexpressed locally in renal chronic rejection. Results: Our results showed that patients affected by chronic renal failure (and waiting for kidney transplant), as well as kidney-grafted patients affected by chronic transplant dysfunction, had plasma levels of RANTES significantly higher than those of controls (patients without acute or chronic pathologies). Conclusions: Our data suggest a simple method to evaluate the plasmatic presence of RANTES, which could be involved in long- term kidney graft failure.
KW - Chronic dysfunction
KW - Kidney transplantation
KW - MCP-1
KW - RANTES
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U2 - 10.1016/S0009-9120(99)00038-7
DO - 10.1016/S0009-9120(99)00038-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 10667481
AN - SCOPUS:0032699080
VL - 32
SP - 455
EP - 460
JO - Clinical Biochemistry
JF - Clinical Biochemistry
SN - 0009-9120
IS - 6
ER -