Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Immune system donor organ

  • led to a brief period in which the recipients immune system blended with that of the donor.
  • (Science Now)
  • system under control is to make it think like the immune system in the person whos donating the organ. That immune system of the donor would recognize the transplanted organ and not try to get rid of it.
  • (Newsday)
  • As she prepared for a transplant to address her polycystic kidney disease, Porter, 47, had mixed feelings -- relief to have found a donor, tinged with resignation.
  • (CNN)
  • The findings are particularly striking since the patients weren't perfect tissue matches with the living donors.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • because the technique worked for patients who didnt have well-matched or related donors.
  • (Abc Local Web)
  • Notably, all of these patients maintained entirely donor-derived immune systems with no signs of GvHD but it's a little early to claim that.
  • (Nature.com)
  • because the technique worked for patients who didnt have well-matched or related donors.
  • (Denver Post)
  • The key lies in borrowing some stem cells from the donors bone marrow. The cells are then engineered to trick the immune system of the recipient into thinking the new organ is an original part of the body.
  • (CTV)
  • The experimental procedure uses specially processed stem cells from kidney donors to give recipients a combined immune system that lets their bodies recognize the donated organs as their own.
  • (Courier-Journal)

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