Sentences with phrase «prevent organ transplant»

Cyclosporin, sold as Atopica, is the same drug that people take to prevent organ transplants rejection.

An effective long term treatment for atopy relies on cyclosporines, the medication that prevents organ transplant rejections.

Not exact matches

To prevent transplant rejection in patients with end - stage organ failure, a lifelong regimen of immune - suppressing drugs is almost always required.

The new technique, described in next month's Nature Medicine, could someday be used to prevent organ rejection in people, as well as eliminate the need for lifelong immune - suppressing drugs that make most transplant recipients susceptible to infections, cancers, and nerve damage.

Surprisingly, the researchers detected levels of viruses in sepsis patients that were on par with those seen in patients who have had organ transplants and are taking immune - suppression drugs to prevent rejection.

Rapamycin is used in recipients of organ transplants, as it keeps the immune system in check and can consequently prevent rejection of the foreign tissue.

The first off - the - shelf stem cell treatment to gain regulatory approval was launched in Japan last year, and prevents transplanted organs from attacking their recipients.

«We used mice with conditions that mimic those often found in transplant patients — hyperlipidemia is common in patients before transplantation but can also be caused by drugs to prevent organ rejection — and discovered that it accelerates 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.»

«Cancer treatment for transplant patients discovered: Letter notes combination of steroids and immunosuppressants, combined with immune checkpoint inhibitors helps prevent organ rejection in kidney transplant patients undergoing cancer treatment.»

Having waited months, sometimes years, for a donor and survived major surgery, transplant patients face an uphill battle to prevent their immune systems from rejecting their new organ.

The situation looks a lot like that in kidney transplant patients, who are taking drugs to prevent immune rejection of their new organ, Ford says.

For example, the biology of dendritic cells is now being used to explore vaccines and therapies to prevent infectious diseases, autoimmune disorders, allergy, cancer, and rejection of organ transplants.

«As a patient, I'd rather have a cure for my disease, or know how to prevent it, than have an organ transplant,» says Griffith.

Mycophenolate mofetil is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prevent organ rejection in people who have received a kidney, heart, or liver transplant.

Often used to prevent patients» bodies from rejecting transplanted organs, rapamycin works by increasing the numbers of regulatory T cells and block other aggressive types of T cells.

One direction is to use drugs already approved to prevent rejection for organ transplant that target the same receptor.

The animals were genetically altered to prevent human rejection of transplanted pig organs.

It is used to help prevent rejection after organ transplant operations and also to treat a variety of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.

The drug, rapamycin, is an immunosuppressant used to treat certain cancers and also to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients.

Cyclosporine (Atopica) is used in organ transplant patients because it suppresses the immune system to prevent the body from rejecting its new organ.

High doses of rapamycin are already used in humans to fight cancer and prevent organ - transplant rejection, but at low doses, it has also been shown to slow aging and extend life span in several animals with few or no side effects.