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Berger, S. P. (2009, January 28). Innate immune functions in kidney transplantation. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/13439
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Innate Immune Functions in Kidney Transplantation
Stefan Philip Berger
Copyright © 2009 S.P. Berger
All rights reserved. No part of this thesis may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the prior written permission of the author, or where appropriate, of the publisher of the articles.
Innate Immune Functions in Kidney Transplantation
Proefschrift
ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van Rector Magni cus prof.mr. P.F. van der Heijden,
volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op woensdag 28 januari 2009
klokke 16.15 uur
door
Stefan Philip Berger
geboren te Johannesburg in 1969
Referent: Prof.Dr. I. J. ten Berge
Academisch Medisch Centrum, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Overige leden: Prof.Dr J.A. Bruijn, Prof.Dr. F.H.J. Claas
Dr. L.B. Hilbrands, Universitair Medisch Centrum St Radboud, Nijmegen
Prof.Dr. T.W.J. Huizinga, Dr. C. van Kooten
Prof.Dr. G.J. Navis, Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
Voor Tanja
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction and scope of the thesis 9
Chapter 2 Complement and the Kidney 15
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2005; 20:2613-2619
Chapter 3 Association between Mannose-binding Lectin Levels and 31 Graft Survival in Kidney Transplantation
American Journal of Transplantation 2005; 5:1361-1366
Chapter 4 Low Pre-transplantation Mannose-binding Lectin Levels Predict 47 Superior Patient and Graft Survival after Simultaneous
Pancreas-kidney Transplantation
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2007; 18:2416-2422
Chapter 5 Infectious complications after simultaneous pancreas-kidney 65 transplantation: A role for the lectin pathway of
complement activation Transplantation 2008; 85:75-80
Chapter 6 Properdin binds to late apoptotic and necrotic cells 83 independently of C3b, and regulates alternative pathway
complement activation
Journal of Immunology 2008; 180(11):7613-7621
Chapter 7 Complement activation by tubular cells is mediated by 111
properdin binding
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2008; 295(5):F1397-403
Chapter 8 General Discussion 131
Nederlandse samenvatting 145
Curriculum vitae 149
Publications 150
Nawoord 152
Color gures 153
