Alberto Ortiz

Jan 28, 2025 | mdpi.com | Alberto Ortiz |Lucía León |Maria Ramirez |María Ramírez |David Tejerina

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Jan 6, 2025 | nature.com | Alberto Ortiz

Innate immune memory represents a barrier to successful kidney transplantation. The discovery that uraemic toxins in people with kidney failure induce trained immunity suggests that, as chronic kidney disease progresses, long-lived memory macrophages promote systemic chronic inflammation, which could contribute to organ transplant rejection.