The number of circulating recent thymic emigrants is severely reduced 1 year after a single dose of alemtuzumab in renal transplant recipients

Transplant International : Official Journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation
Mirko ScarsiPaolo Airò

Abstract

To better understand the kinetics of the delayed reconstitution of peripheral CD4+ T-cells after depletion with a single administration of alemtuzumab (AL) for renal transplantation, we evaluated in these patients the percentage and absolute number of recent thymic emigrants (RTEs) CD4+ T cells, together with naive and memory subsets, defined by the analysis of CD31, CD45RA and CCR7 expression, and compared with patients treated with a nondepleting protocol based on basiliximab, and with healthy controls. In AL-treated patients, the number of circulating CD4+ T cells was greatly reduced 1 year after the infusion (P < 0.01), but the proportions of central memory, effector memory and terminally differentiated effector memory subsets among CD4+ cells were significantly increased. On the contrary, the proportion and the absolute number of naïve CD4+ T cells, although progressively increasing with time, were severely reduced. In particular, the absolute number of RTEs had only very slight increase with time (P = 0.049) and was dramatically low 1 year after the therapy (P < 0.01 vs. healthy controls; P < 0.05 vs. basiliximab-treated transplant recipients). These data suggest that a prolonged defective thymic output after AL therapy i...Continue Reading

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