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Qi Jiang1, Yawei Ru2, Yang Yu3
1Department of Basic Medicine, Tianjin Medical College, Tianjin, China; School of Basic Medical Science, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Abstract:
Liver transplantation (LT) is the most effective treatment method for advanced stage liver disease but acute cellular rejection (ACR) seriously affects the prognosis of LT. To discover novel diagnostic biomarkers of ACR after LT, Isobaric Tags for Relative and Absolute Quantitation (iTRAQ)-based mass spectrometry was performed to characterize alterations of serum proteins among patients validated to be pathologically ACR or pathologically no-ACR after LT and healthy controls. As a result, 10 differentially expressed proteins were found out between the ACR group and the No-ACR group; 88 differentially expressed proteins were found out between the ACR group and the Healthy Control group; 39 differentially expressed proteins were found out between No-ACR group and Healthy Control group. After analysis and ELISA validation, the results showed that CFHR1, CFHR5 and CFH could be candidate protein biomarkers for the early diagnosis of ACR after LT.
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