Tobias Heigl, Janne Kaes, Celine Aelbrecht, Jef Serré, Yoshito Yamada, Vincent Geudens, Anke Van Herck, Arno Vanstapel, Annelore Sacreas, Sofie Ordies, Anna Frick, Berta Saez Gimenez, Jan Van Slambrouck, Hanne Beeckmans, Nilüfer A Acet Oztürk, Michaela Orlitova, Annemie Vaneylen, Sandra Claes, Dominique Schols, Greetje Vande Velde, Jonas Schupp, Naftali Kaminski, Markus Boesch, Hannelie Korf, Schalk van der Merwe, Lieven Dupont, Jeroen Vanoirbeek, Laurent Godinas, Dirk E Van Raemdonck, Wim Janssens, Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez, Laurens J Ceulemans, John E McDonough, Erik K Verbeken, Robin Vos, Bart M Vanaudenaerde
INTRODUCTION: Chronic rejection is a major complication post-transplantation. Within lung transplantation, chronic rejection was considered as airway centred. Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction (CLAD), defined to cover all late chronic complications, makes it more difficult to understand chronic rejection from an immunological perspective. This study investigated the true nature, timing and location of chronic rejection as a whole, within mouse lung transplantation. METHODS: 40 mice underwent an orthotopic left lung transplantation, were sacrificed at day 70 and evaluated by histology and in vivo µCT...
2024: Frontiers in Immunology