Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 2 , Pages 181-189 , August 2009

Donor graft interferon regulatory factor-1 gene transfer worsens liver transplant ischemia/reperfusion injury

  • Kee-Hwan Kim, MD

      Affiliations

    • Starzl Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Department of Surgery, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Rajeev Dhupar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Starzl Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Shinya Ueki, MD

      Affiliations

    • Starzl Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Jon Cardinal, MD

      Affiliations

    • Starzl Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Pinhua Pan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Starzl Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Zongxian Cao, MD

      Affiliations

    • Starzl Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Sung W. Cho, MD

      Affiliations

    • Starzl Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Noriko Murase, MD

      Affiliations

    • Starzl Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Allan Tsung, MD

      Affiliations

    • Starzl Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • David A. Geller, MD

      Affiliations

    • Starzl Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: David A. Geller, MD, UPMC Liver Cancer Center, 3471 Fifth Avenue, Kaufmann Medical Building, Suite 300, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.

,Accepted 12 June 2009.

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 Presented at the 2009 Academic Surgical Congress.

 Supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician-Student Award (A.T.), American College of Surgeons Research Fellowship (A.T.), NIH grant DK54232 (N.M.), NIH grant R01-GM52021 and R01-DK62313 (D.A.G.).

PII: S0039-6060(09)00346-8

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.011

Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 2 , Pages 181-189 , August 2009

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