Evaluation of Thymic Output and Regulatory T Cells in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection.
Abbas ShahiSaeedeh SalehiShima AfzaliLadan Gol Mohammad Pour AfrakotiMarzie EsmaeiliFarzaneh BagherpourZiba AghsaeifardSanaz DehghaniGholamreza PourmandAli Akbar AmirzargarPublished in: BioMed research international (2021)
It seems that Treg cells are significantly associated with transplant outcomes in cAMR patients, and prescribed immunosuppressive drugs can influence the frequency of this crucial subset of T cells. Although these drugs are beneficial and inevitable for allograft maintenance, more investigations are needed to elucidate their complete effects on different immune cell subsets which some of them like Tregs are in favor of transplant tolerance. Besides, the thymic output is seemingly not a beneficial biomarker for predicting cAMR; however, more in vivo and in vitro studies are needed for revealing the precise role of Tregs and RTEs in the transplantation context.