Karen Nelson Laboratory Publications

  1. Verghese PS, Smith JM, McDonald RA, Schwartz SM, Nelson KA,Warner PR. Impaired graft survival in pediatric renal transplantrecipients with donor-specific antibodies detected by solid-phase assays. PediatrTransplantation 2010: 14:730–734. PMID20598090
  2. Kieran N, Wang X, Perkins J, Davis C, Kendrick E, Bakthavatsalam R, Dunbar N, Warner P, Nelson K, Smith KD, Nicosia RF, Alpers CE, Leca N, Kowalewska J. Combination of peritubularC4d and transplant glomerulopathy predicts late renal allograft failure. .J Am Soc Nephrol 10) :2260-8., 2009. PMID19729438
  3. Slichter, S.J., Fish, D., Abrams, V.K., Gaur, L., Nelson, K., and Bolgiano, D. Evaluation of different methods of leukoreduction of donor platelets to prevent alloimmune platelet refractoriness and induce tolerance in a canine transfusion model. Blood, 105(2):847-854, 2005. PMID15231575
  4. Reinsmoen, N., Zeevi, A., and Nelson, K.A. Anti-HLA antibody analysis and crossmatching in heart and lung transplantation. Transplant Immunol, 13: 63-71, 2004. PMID15203130
  5. Gaur, L.K., Nitta, Y., Kennedy, E., Lernmark, A., Nelson, K.A., Allen, M., and Nepom, G.T. Induction of islet allotolerance in nonhuman primates. Ann N Y Acad Sci 958:199-203, 2002. PMID12021106
  6. He, J.Q., Gaur, L.K., Stempien-Otero, A., Nelson, K., Levy, W.C., O'Brien, K.D., Bolgiano, D.C., and Reiner, A.P. Genetic variants of the hemostatic system and development of transplant coronary artery disease. J Heart Lung Transplant 21:629-36, 2002. PMID12057695
  7. Nitta, Y., Nelson, K., Gaur, L.K., Andrews, R.G., and Allen, M.D. CFSE dye dilution mixed leukocyte reactions monitor alloreactivity following cardiac transplantation in non-human primates. Transplantation Proceedings, 33:226-9, 2001. PMID11266844
  8. Reiner, A.P., Teramura, G., Nelson, K., and Slichter, S.J. A platelet monoclonal antibody-inhibition assay for detection of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa-related platelet alloantibodies. J Immunol. Meth.,184:153-162, 1995. PMID7658019
  9. Nelson, KA., George, E., Swenson, C., Forstrom, J.W. and Hellstrom, K.E. Immunotherapy of murine sarcomas with auto-antiidiotypic monoclonal antibodies which bind to tumor-specific T cells. J. Immunol. 139:2110-2118, 1987. PMID2957449
  10. Forstrom, J.W., Nelson, KA., Nepom, G.T., Hellstrom I., and Hellstrom, K.E. "Immunization to a syngeneic sarcoma by a monoclonal auto-anti-idiotypic antibody." Nature 303:627-629, 1983. PMID6190090
  11. Nelson, K., and Sjogren, H.O. "Effects of presensitization in vivo on cell-mediated responses to embryonic antigens in vitro." Int. J. Cancer 10:108-114, 1978. PMID624596
  12. Nelson, K., Pollack, S.B., and Hellstrom, K.E. "Specific anti-tumor responses by cultured immune spleen cells. I. "In vitro culture method and initial characterization of factors which block immune cell-mediated cytotoxicity in vitro." Int. J. Cancer 15:806-814, 1975. PMID1140873