Maternal microchimerism in the livers of patients with biliary atresia

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Suskind, David L ^a   Rosenthal, Philip ^a   Heyman, Melvin B ^b   Kong, Denice ^a   Magrane, Greg ^a   Baxter Lowe, Lee Ann ^b   Muench, Marcus O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HLA ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; MICROCHIMERISM; NEWBORN; NEWBORN HEPATITIS; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; CHIMERA; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

BILIARY ATRESIA; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA; FEMALE; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 10444234973     PISSN: 1471230X     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-4-14     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Hollander M, Schaffner F: Electron microscopic studies in biliary atresia. I. Bile ductular proliferation. Am J Dis Child 1968, 116:49-56.
2. Hollander M, Schaffner F: Electron microscopic studies in biliary atresia. II. Hepatocellular alterations. Am J Dis Child 1968, 116:57-65.
3. Sterling JA: Biliary tract morphology and prognosis of biliary atresia. Am J Gastroenterol 1966, 45:261-266.
4. Fischler B, Haglund B, Hjern A: A population-based study on the incidence and possible pre- and perinatal etiologic risk factors of biliary atresia. J Pediatr 2002, 141:217-222.
5. Ohi R, Ibrahim M: Biliary atresia. Semin Pediatr Surg 1992, 1:115-124.
6. Fischler B, Papadogiannakis N, Nemeth A: Aetiological factors in neonatal cholestasis. Acta Paediatr 2001, 90: 8-92.
7. Karrer FM, Lilly JR, Stewart BA, Hall RJ: Biliary atresia registry, 1976 to 1989. J Pediatr Surg 1990, 25:1076-80; discussion 1081.
8. Amersi F, Farmer DG, Busuttil RW: Fifteen-year experience with adult and pediatric liver transplantation at the University of California, Los Angeles. Clin Transpl 1998:255-261.
9. Desmet VJ: Ludwig symposium on biliary disorders-part I. Pathogenesis of ductal plate abnormalities. Mayo Clin Proc 1998, 73:80-89.
10. Ben-Ezra JM, Stroup RM: Phenotype of bile ducts and infiltrating lymphocytes in graft-versus-host disease. Transplantation 1993, 56:162-165.
11. Broome U, Nemeth A, Hultcrantz R, Scheynius A: Different expression of HLA-DR and ICAM-I in livers from patients with biliary atresia and Byler's disease. J Hepatol 1997, 26:857-862.
12. Chao NJ: Graft-versus-host disease: the viewpoint from the donor T cell. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 1997, 3:1-10.
13. Ferrara JL, Levy R, Chao NJ: Pathophysiologic mechanisms of acute graft-vs.-host disease. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 1999, 5:347-356.
14. Nonomura A, Kono N, Mizukami Y, Nakanuma Y: Histological changes of the liver in experimental graft-versus-host disease across minor histocompatibility barriers. VII. A light and electron microscopic study of the large bile duct. Liver 1993, 13:163-171.
15. Schroder J, Tiilikainen A, De la Chapelle A: Fetal leukocytes in the maternal circulation after delivery. I. Cytological aspects. Transplantation 1974, 17:346-354.
16. Lo YM, Lo ES, Watson N, Noakes L, Sargent IL, Thilaganathan B, Wainscoat JS: Two-way cell traffic between mother and fetus: biologic and clinical implications. Blood 1996, 88: 390-4395.
17. Müller SM, Ege M, Pottharst A, Schulz AS, Schwarz K, Friedrich W: Transplacentally acquired maternal T lymphocytes in severe combined immunodeficiency: a study of 121 patients. Blood 2001, 98:1847-1851.
18. Reed W, Kong DZ, Lee TH, Cowan MJ, Busch MP, Baxter-Lowe LA: Non-invasive determination of the paternal HLA haplotype of a fetus using kinetic PCR to detect fetal microchimerism in maternal plasma. Bone Marrow Transplant 2002, 29:527-529.
19. Assche EL, Susanne C: Increase in the amount of fetal lymphocytes in maternal blood during pregnancy. J Med Genet 1980, 17:267-272.
20. Ocejo-Vinyals JG, Lozano MJ, Sanchez-Velasco P, Escribano de Diego J, Paz-Miguel JE, Leyva-Cobian F: An unusual concurrence of graft versus host disease caused by engraftment of maternal lymphocytes with DiGeorge anomaly. Arch Dis Child 2000, 83:165-169.
21. Ohya T, Fujimoto T, Shimomura H, Miyano T: Degeneration of intrahepatic bile duct with lymphocyte infiltration into biliary epithelial cells in biliary atresia. J Pediatr Surg 1995, 30: 15-518.
22. Bezerra JA, Tiao G, Ryckman FC, Alonso M, Sabla GE, Shneider B, Sokol RJ, Aronow BJ: Genetic induction of proinflammatory immunity in children with biliary atresia. Lancet 2002, 360: 653-1659.
23. Hu HZ, Li GL, Lim YK, Chan SH, Yap EH: Kinetics of interferongamma secretion and its regulatory factors in the early phase of acute graft-versus-host disease. Immunology 1999, 98: 79-385.
24. Dillon PW, Belchis D, Minnick K, Tracy T: Differential expression of the major histocompatibility antigens and ICAM-I on bile duct epithelial cells in biliary atresia. Tohoku J Exp Med 1997, 181:33-40.
25. Nakada M, Nakada K, Kawaguchi F, Wakisaka M, Kashimura T, Yamate N, Maeyama S, Uchikoshi T: Immunologic reaction and genetic factors in biliary atresia. Tohoku J Exp Med 1997, 181: 1-47.
26. Shimazaki C, Ochiai N, Uchida R, Okano A, Fuchida S, Ashihara E, Inaba T, Fujita N, Maruya E, Nakagawa M: Non-T-cell-depleted HLA haploidentical stem cell transplantation in advanced hematologic malignancies based on the feto-maternal michrochimerism. Blood 2003, 101:3334-3336.
27. Chen J., Chang M., Lee H., Muench M.O.: Haploidentical donor T cells fail to facilitate engraftment but lessen the immune response of host T cells in murine fetal transplantatio. British Journal of Haematology 2004, 126: 277-384.