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University of Tokyo, Japan

New findings from Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom in the area of transplants described

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, August 25th, 2006

Investigators in Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom have published new transplants data.

Study 1: Angiotensin II may play a role in the pathogenesis of transplant arteriosclerosis.

"Transplant arteriosclerosis remains the major cause of graft failure after cardiac transplantation, although recent progress in immunosuppressive therapy has dramatically improved short-term survival of recipient.

"We investigated the effects of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1 R) blocker candesartan on the development of transplant arteriosclerosis in a murine model of cardiac transplantation," scientists writing in the...

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