The number of circulating recent thymic emigrants is severely reduced 1 year after a single dose of alemtuzumab in renal transplant recipients

To better understand the kinetics of the delayed reconstitution of peripheral CD4+ T-cells after depletion with a single administration of alemtuzumab (AL) for renal transplantation, we evaluated in these patients the percentage and absolute number of recent thymic emigrants (RTEs) CD4+ T cells, together with naive and memory subsets, defined by the analysis of CD31, CD45RA and CCR7 expression, and compared with patients treated with a nondepleting protocol based on basiliximab, and with healthy controls. In AL-treated patients, the number of circulating CD4+ T cells was greatly reduced 1 year after the infusion (P < 0.01), but the proportions of central memory, effector memory and terminally differentiated effector memory subsets among CD4+ cells were significantly increased. On the contrary, the proportion and the absolute number of naïve CD4+ T cells, although progressively increasing with time, were severely reduced. In particular, the absolute number of RTEs had only very slight increase with time (P = 0.049) and was dramatically low 1 year after the therapy (P < 0.01 vs. healthy controls; P < 0.05 vs. basiliximab-treated transplant recipients). These data suggest that a prolonged defective thymic output after AL therapy in renal transplant recipients is one of the main causes of the persistent CD4+ T-cell lymphopenia observed in these patients.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2010

Erschienen:

2010

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation - 23(2010), 8 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 786-95

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Scarsi, Mirko [VerfasserIn]
Bossini, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Malacarne, Fabio [VerfasserIn]
Valerio, Francesca [VerfasserIn]
Sandrini, Silvio [VerfasserIn]
Airò, Paolo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3A189DH42V
9927MT646M
Alemtuzumab
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
Antibodies, Neoplasm
Antineoplastic Agents
Basiliximab
Biomarkers
Controlled Clinical Trial
Immunosuppressive Agents
Journal Article
Platelet Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule-1
Recombinant Fusion Proteins

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Date Completed 25.10.2010

Date Revised 01.12.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/j.1432-2277.2010.01052.x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM194918165