Sentences with phrase «lung transplant rejection»

But new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that broadly dampening the immune response, long considered crucial to transplant success, may encourage lung transplant rejection.

Not exact matches

Whereas most conventional scientists focus on a single system or disease, Butte earned tenure recently with a dossier of advances in diabetes, obesity, and transplant rejection, and the discovery of new drugs for lung cancer and other diseases.

«Reading small lung transplant biopsies with a microscope is challenging — much more so than other transplantable organs — and that makes diagnosing rejection that much more difficult and prone to error,» explained Kieran Halloran, assistant professor of medicine in the U of A's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry.

Sirolimus sometimes is given to lung transplant patients to prevent rejection.

Her group wanted to make lung tissue from the body's own cells, to prevent rejection when transplanted.

Without these cells, the immune system recognizes a newly transplanted lung as harmful and mounts an attack that eventually can lead to rejection of the organ.

But in lung transplants, this strategy may contribute to organ rejection.»

«We think this approach to preventing organ rejection has the potential to offer significant benefits to those in need of heart, lung, liver and bone marrow transplants.»