title: Renal ischemia-reperfusion injury amplifies the humoral immune response.
abstract: Renal transplant recipients who experience delayed graft function have increased risks of rejection and long-term graft failure. Ischemic damage is the most common cause of delayed graft function, and although it is known that tissue inflammation accompanies renal ischemia, it is unknown whether renal ischemia affects the production of antibodies by B lymphocytes, which may lead to chronic humoral rejection and allograft failure. Here, mice immunized with a foreign antigen 24-96 hours after renal ischemia-reperfusion injury developed increased levels of antigen-specific IgG1 compared with sham-treated controls. This amplified IgG1 response did not follow unilateral ischemia, and it did not occur in response to a T-independent antigen. To test whether innate immune activation in the kidney after ischemia affects the systemic immune response to antigen, we repeated the immunization experiment using mice deficient in factor B that lack a functional alternative pathway of complement. Renal ischemia-reperfusion injury did not cause amplification of the antigen-specific antibodies in these mice, suggesting that the increased immune response requires a functional alternative pathway of complement. Taken together, these data suggest that ischemic renal injury leads to a rise in antibody production, which may be harmful to renal allografts, possibly explaining a mechanism underlying the link between delayed graft function and long-term allograft failure.
authors: Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension, University of Colorado Denver Health Science Center, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA.
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Fuquay
authors: Brandon
authors: B
authors: Renner
authors: Liudmila
authors: L
authors: Kulik
authors: James W
authors: JW
authors: McCullough
authors: Claudia
authors: C
authors: Amura
authors: Derek
authors: D
authors: Strassheim
authors: Roberta
authors: R
authors: Pelanda
authors: Raul
authors: R
authors: Torres
authors: Joshua M
authors: JM
authors: Thurman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000276:immunology*; D056724:Immunity, Humoral / Q000276:immunology*; D007668:Kidney / Q000276:immunology*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000276:immunology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D015427:Reperfusion Injury / Q000276:immunology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000276:immunology*
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