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SUBMITTER: Castro-Dopico T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5107199 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Castro-Dopico Tomas T Clatworthy Menna R MR
Current transplantation reports 20161003 4
In the current era, one of the major factors limiting graft survival is chronic antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR), whilst patient survival is impacted by the effects of immunosuppression on susceptibility to infection, malignancy and atherosclerosis. IgG antibodies play a role in all of these processes, and many of their cellular effects are mediated by Fc gamma receptors (FcγRs). These surface receptors are expressed by most immune cells, including B cells, natural killer cells, dendritic cell ...[more]