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Establish a treatment strategy to diabetic nephropathy using combined kidney and islets transplantation

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16H05403
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field General surgery
Research InstitutionKagoshima University

Principal Investigator

YAMADA Kazuhiko  鹿児島大学, 総合科学域総合研究学系, 教授 (40241103)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 佐原 寿史  鹿児島大学, 総合科学域総合研究学系, 准教授 (90452333)
清水 章  日本医科大学, 大学院医学研究科, 大学院教授 (00256942)
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥17,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,990,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥6,240,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,440,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥5,980,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,380,000)
Keywords移植・再生医療 / 免疫寛容 / 膵島移植 / 大動物 / 腎臓移植 / 骨髄移植 / サル / キメラ / 外科 / トランスレーショナル研究 / カニクイザル / 膵島・腎移植 / トランスレーショナルリサーチ
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project aimed to cure diabetic nephropathy by utilizing a composite islet-kidney combined with hematopoietic cell transplantation. Over a three-year period, the goal of a three-step progressive improvement in the immune tolerance-inducing immunosuppressive therapy was achieved. Although we have exceeded 200 days survival of composite islet-kidney grafts with first-generation immunosuppression, further efforts are required to reduce drug-induced islet toxicity and improve donor chimerism. The second step demonstrated evidence of BM engraftment at day 37 and rejection free islet-kidney grafts, and the third step further improved % and duration of donor chimerism. With the establishment of the leukapheresis procedure, we have achieved peripheral chimerism for more than 30% over 6 weeks following transplantation, as well as further bone marrow chimerism.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

独自の血管再構築による膵島腎(Islet-Kidney: IK)移植を軸とした、臨床応用可能な糖尿病性腎症患者に対する根治的戦略の確立をはかる本申請研究は、国際的学術誌に認められた自らの成果に基づく計画のもとに遂行され、糖尿病性腎症の根治的治療としての革新的免疫寛容誘導戦略の確立と臨床応用性が、大きく前進するものと確信する。本戦略の臨床応用によって、終末期糖尿病性腎症患者のQOL向上のみならず、医療費削減という社会的観点からも大きな貢献を果たす。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Annual Research Report
  • 2016 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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