Classification of human liver transplant recipients by their preoperative CD8+ T cell subpopulation and its relation to outcome. |
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Authors: | Koichi Tanaka Kazue Ozawa Satoshi Teramukai Yasutsugu Takada Hiroto Egawa Satoshi Kaihara Yasuhiro Fujimoto Yasuhiro Ogura Mureo Kasahara Masako Ono Hiroshi Sato Kenji Takai Masanori Fukushima Nagahiro Minato |
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Affiliation: | Department of Transplantation and Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. |
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Abstract: | The primed status of T cells is markedly different among liver transplant recipients, due to a lifetime of antigen exposure and reduced thymopoiesis by aging, and diseases. This study aims to characterize the preoperative immunological status of CD8+ T cell subpopulations and relate it to the outcome for liver transplant recipients. We classified 112 liver transplant recipients into 5 groups, based on hierarchical clustering of the CD8+CD45 isoform proportion of T cells. In Groups I and II (pediatric), the naive T cell proportion was more than 50%. In adult recipients, Group III was characterized by a naive T cell proportion of 50%, Group IV had the greatest effector/memory T cells (EM), and Group V had the greatest proportion of effector T cells. In Groups IV and V, the effector T cell proportion was considerably higher, and was accompanied by marked downregulation of the CD27+CD28+ subsets and upregulation of interferon gamma (IFN)-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and perforin expression. Group V recipients tended to be complicated postoperatively, with a significantly reduced survival rate (1 yr, 66.8%) and markedly reduced Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status. |
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