Sentences with phrase «matching donor organs»

The implications of this study reach beyond the sense of smell alone, and range from olfactory fingerprint - based early diagnosis of degenerative brain disorders to a non-invasive test for matching donor organs.

Not exact matches

That's why identical twins make perfect organ donors for each other: Only they have perfectly matched MHC genes.

The more you want to relax your considerations about how close a match you need with donors, you know, you open up the field of organs that are available for any particular patient, but you risk, of course, obviously very, very serious indeed lethal reactions in most of those cases.

To help the new organ withstand the assault from the recipient's natural defenses, doctors developed tissue type matching, a technique to determine if the chemistry of the donor's immune system, defined by antigens on the surface of cells, was similar to that of the recipient's.

In Western society the population is growing older, the incidence of chronic disabilities which could be treated by stem cell therapy is steadily rising, and the availability of donor organs is not matching the need.

Long - term preservation methods could help establish organ and tissue banks, which would also reduce transplant rejection rates by facilitating the process to find matching donors when needed.

Beyond organ transplants, many experts think that the protocol could be used to treat other diseases that require bone marrow transplants but for which there are severe shortages of matched donors.

Organ transplantation is a challenge, requiring immunosuppressive drugs and careful matching of donor and recipient for human leukocyte antigen markers, receptors on immune cells that recognize foreign proteins.

She adds that recipients could have a greater choice of donor organs, improving their chances of a good match.

Of 10 patients who got kidneys from genetically mismatched donors, which typically leads to organ rejection more often than matched transplants, seven successfully came off immunosuppressants.

By typing for HL - A antigens, donors and recipients of white blood cells, platelets, and organs can be «matched» insuring good performance and survival of transfused and transplanted cells.

Donor organs are matched to waiting recipients by a national computer registry called the National Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).