Sentences with phrase «organ transplantation study»

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For their study, researchers obtained 1999 - 2009 patient data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

«The need for organ donation continues to grow with ongoing advancements in transplantation, making the need for standardization increasingly imperative,» said study co-author Howard M. Nathan, president and CEO of Gift of Life Donor Program.

Broadly suppressing the immune system after lung transplantation may inadvertently encourage organ rejection, according to a new study in mice.

To help provide accurate estimates of long - term risks, a team led by Dorry Segev, MD, PhD, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, studied information on 133,824 living kidney donors from 1987 to 2015, as reported to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

A journal has decided to retract a 2016 study because of concerns that its data on the safety of liver transplantation involved organs sourced from executed prisoners in China.

Although transplantations were performed in the 1960s, the study began gathering data from 1987 when the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) first established measures for evaluating transplantation outcomes.

Strategies like the Pittsburgh Protocol that aim to minimize maintenance immunosuppression have been studied in organ transplantation at UPMC.

The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation, the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation and a European Society for Organ Transplantation - Astellas Study and Research Grant.

Tsuji believes that their study opens possibilities in organ transplantation.

A number of studies reported that HDAC inhibitors could suppress the immune response of T cells and reduce the severity of inflammation and, therefore, might be used to inhibit immune rejection or induce tolerance in organ transplantation and BMT (20 — 23).

This study focuses on the engraftment of HPCs in immunocompetent mice and proposes a strategy that could exploit available human ES cell lines to improve organ transplantation.

Laboratory swine provide a model for the study of atherosclerosis, diabetes, and organ transplantation, and porcine skin is so similar to our own that it can be used as a temporary patch for burn patients.

While the government has controls on organs and tissue meant for transplantation, these «body brokers» capitalize on the myriad other uses for dead bodies that receive no federal oversight whatsoever: commercial seminars to introduce new medical gadgetry; medical research studies and training courses; and U.S. Army land - mine explosion tests.