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organ transplant: see transplantation, medical transplantation, medical, surgical procedure by which a tissue or organ is removed and replaced by a corresponding part, either from another part of the body or from another individual. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Transplant recipients have to squelch their natural immune system, which otherwise could reject the transplanted organs. An understanding of the role of regulatory T cells might also lead to new treatments for suppressing rejection of transplanted organs and inhibiting autoimmune reactions, in which a person's immune cells attack his or her own tissues, Betz and his coworkers speculate. These encouraging results open the door to treating, in my view, rejection of other transplanted organs and tissue, including bone marrow. |
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Transplanted organs
