Immunosuppressive therapy is a treatment that weakens or suppresses the body's immune system. It is used to prevent the immune system from attacking healthy cells in conditions like organ transplantation or autoimmune diseases. Full definition
Long term care includes immunosuppressive therapy for several months post-crisis. (ashgi.org)
In each patient, researchers at University of California, San Francisco, transplanted 75 million neural stem cells into each of four sites in the brain and followed that with immunosuppressive therapy so the recipient wouldn't reject the foreign cells. (sciencemag.org)
«This new approach to delivering immunosuppressant therapy suggests that local delivery of the drug to the grafted tissue has benefits in reducing toxicity, as well as markedly improving therapeutic outcomes, and may lead to a paradigm shift in clinical immunosuppressive therapy in transplant surgery,» said Jeff Karp, PhD, Division of Biomedical Engineering, BWH Department of Medicine, co-corresponding study author. (sciencedaily.com)