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23.02.2017 | Review
Cell therapeutic approaches to immunosuppression after clinical kidney transplantation
verfasst von:
Christian Morath, Anita Schmitt, Florian Kälble, Martin Zeier, Michael Schmitt, Flavius Sandra-Petrescu, Gerhard Opelz, Peter Terness, Matthias Schaier, Christian Kleist
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Nephrology
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Ausgabe 2/2018
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Abstract
Refinement of immunosuppressive strategies has led to further improvement of kidney graft survival in recent years. Currently, the main limitations to long-term graft survival are life-threatening side effects of immunosuppression and chronic allograft injury, emphasizing the need for innovative immunosuppressive regimens that resolve this therapeutic dilemma. Several cell therapeutic approaches to immunosuppression and donor-specific unresponsiveness have been tested in early phase I and phase II clinical trials in kidney transplantation. The aim of this overview is to summarize current cell therapeutic approaches to immunosuppression in clinical kidney transplantation with a focus on myeloid suppressor cell therapy by mitomycin C-induced cells (MICs). MICs show great promise as a therapeutic agent to achieve the rapid and durable establishment of donor-unresponsiveness in living-donor kidney transplantation. Cell-based therapeutic approaches may eventually revolutionize immunosuppression in kidney transplantation in the near future.