The Journal of clinical investigation
Dominant intragraft plasma cells targeting bilirubin implicate local heme catabolism in human cardiac allograft vasculopathy.
Sarah B See, Talita Aguiar, Max Dietzel, Mattea Ausmeier, Hang Tt Nguyen, Shunya Mashiko, Laura Donadeu, Hector Cordero, Poulomi Roy, Lorea Roson, Charles C Marboe, Matthias J Szabolcs, Maryjane Farr, Jose González-Costello, Aleix Olivella
Published: 202510.1172/JCI194138
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is consistently accompanied by immune infiltrates surrounding affected coronary arteries, including antibody-producing plasma cells (PC). The antigenic drivers of these intragraft PC responses remain p…
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