2018
Donor tissue-specific exosome profiling enables noninvasive monitoring of acute rejection in mouse allogeneic heart transplantation
Habertheuer A, Korutla L, Rostami S, Reddy S, Lal P, Naji A, Vallabhajosyula P. Donor tissue-specific exosome profiling enables noninvasive monitoring of acute rejection in mouse allogeneic heart transplantation. Journal Of Thoracic And Cardiovascular Surgery 2018, 155: 2479-2489. PMID: 29499866, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.12.125.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEarly acute rejectionDonor heartsAcute rejectionHeart transplantationStudy armsImmunologic rejectionMaintenance armHeterotopic heart transplantation modelAllogeneic heart transplantationTime pointsHeart transplantation modelHeterotopic heart transplantationAbsence of rejectionNovel biomarker platformDevelopment of biomarkersNoninvasive monitoringTransplant heartCardiac allograftsImmunocompetent recipientsAllograft monitoringImmunodeficient recipientsRecipient circulationTransplantation modelDay 1Total plasma
2017
Tissue-specific exosome biomarkers for noninvasively monitoring immunologic rejection of transplanted tissue
Vallabhajosyula P, Korutla L, Habertheuer A, Yu M, Rostami S, Yuan CX, Reddy S, Liu C, Korutla V, Koeberlein B, Trofe-Clark J, Rickels MR, Naji A. Tissue-specific exosome biomarkers for noninvasively monitoring immunologic rejection of transplanted tissue. Journal Of Clinical Investigation 2017, 127: 1375-1391. PMID: 28319051, PMCID: PMC5373894, DOI: 10.1172/jci87993.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRenal transplantationImmunologic rejectionTransplanted tissueClinical settingBiomarker platformAppearance of hyperglycemiaIslet transplant modelIslet β-cellsDonor exosomesTransplant isletsHLA antibodiesRecipient bloodTransplant modelRecipient circulationXenogeneic modelRecipient plasmaRenal epithelial cellsTransplant tissueHuman isletsΒ-cellsBiomarker potentialTransplantationNoninvasive windowEpithelial cellsExosomal microRNAs