Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2014, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (5): 773-778.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2014.05.020

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A breakthrough in antibody-drug conjugates in anti-immune rejection

Guo Cai-long, Mang Yuan-yi, Zhang Lei   

  1. Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, Heilongjiang Province, China
  • Revised:2013-12-08 Online:2014-01-29 Published:2014-01-29
  • Contact: Zhang Lei, M.D., Chief physician, Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, Heilongjiang Province, China
  • About author:Guo Cai-long, Studying for master’s degree, Department of General Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, Heilongjiang Province, China
  • Supported by:

    the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81172819

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: The immunological rejection between host and graft is the leading cause of organ transplantation failure. The traditional immunosuppressive agents have been unable to meet the needs of clinical treatment. Antibody-drug conjugate, as a type of new drugs, may be hope for the treatment of immune rejection.

OBJECTIVE: To comprehensively analyze the composition of antibody-drug conjugates, mechanism of action, clinical research progress as well as the development trend.
METHODS: A computer-based online retrieval was performed to search papers in CNKI and PubMed database using the key words of ADCs, immunosuppressive agents, immunotoxins, organ transplantation, graft rejection in Chinese and English. Recently published or published in the prestigious journals were selected in the same field. After excluding objective-independent papers and repeated studies, 42 papers were included for further analysis. 

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Antibody-drug conjugates, as highly effective and lowly toxic immunosuppressant, have achieved a breakthrough in treatment of targeting tumor, while the role of it in anti-immune rejection is still at the exploratory stage. For islet transplantation, novel antibody-drug conjugates are required to block CD8+ T effector by CD103/E-Cadherin pathway, and will probably serve as a potential drug intervention for allograft rejection.



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Key words:  islet transplantation, immunosuppressive agents, immunotoxins, graft rejection

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