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Kidney Transplant Rejection and Tissue Injury by Gene Profiling of Biopsies and Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes

ABSTRACT: We used DNA microarrays (HG-U95Av2 GeneChips) to determine gene expression profiles for kidney biopsies and peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) in transplant patients. Sample classes include kidney biopsies and PBLs from patients with 1) healthy normal donor kidneys, 2) well-functioning transplants with no clinical evidence of rejection, 3) kidneys undergoing acute rejection, and 4) transplants with renal dysfunction without rejection. Nomenclature for samples is as follows: 1) all sample names include either BX or PBL to indicate that they were derived from biopsies or PBLs respectively, 2) C indicates samples from healthy normal donors, 3) TX indicates samples from patients with well-functioning transplants with no clinical evidence of rejection, 3) AR indicates samples from transplant patients with kidneys undergoing acute rejection, 4) NR indicates samples from transplant patients with renal dysfunction without rejection. Abbreviations used to describe patient samples include the following: BX - Biopsy; PBL- Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes; CsA -Cyclosporine; MMF - Mycophenolate Mofetil; P - Prednisone; FK - Tacrolimus; SRL - Sirolimus; CAD -Cadaveric; LD - Live Donor; Scr - Serum Creatinine; ATN - Acute Tubular Necrosis CNI - Calcineurin Inhibitor; FSGS - Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis several array data sets did not pass quality control and were not analyzed. These include AR1PBL, NR4BX, and NR6PBL Keywords = DNA microarrays, gene expression, kidney, rejection, transplant Keywords: other. This dataset is part of the TransQST collection.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Steven Head

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-1563 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Kidney transplant rejection and tissue injury by gene profiling of biopsies and peripheral blood lymphocytes.

Flechner Stuart M SM Kurian Sunil M SM Head Steven R SR Sharp Starlette M SM Whisenant Thomas C TC Zhang Jie J Chismar Jeffrey D JD Horvath Steve S Mondala Tony T Gilmartin Timothy T Cook Daniel J DJ Kay Steven A SA Walker John R JR Salomon Daniel R DR

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20040901 9

A major challenge for kidney transplantation is balancing the need for immunosuppression to prevent rejection, while minimizing drug-induced toxicities. We used DNA microarrays (HG-U95Av2 GeneChips, Affymetrix) to determine gene expression profiles for kidney biopsies and peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) in transplant patients including normal donor kidneys, well-functioning transplants without rejection, kidneys undergoing acute rejection, and transplants with renal dysfunction without rejec ...[more]

PMID: 15307835

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