Table of Contents:
  • Current status of renal transplantation
  • Current status of liver transplantation
  • Current status of clinical islet cell transplantation
  • Current status of lung transplantation
  • Chronic rejection in the heart
  • Direct and indirect allorecognition
  • HLA typing and its influence on organ transplantation
  • Strategies for gene transfer to solid organs : viral vectors
  • Nonviral vectors
  • Detection and clinical relevance of antibodies after transplantation
  • Reprogramming the immune system using antibodies
  • In vitro assays for immune monitoring in transplantation
  • Proteomics and laser microdissection
  • Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction in cardiac transplant research
  • Organ preservation
  • Pharmacological manipulation of the rejection response
  • Experimental models of graft arteriosclerosis