Sentences with phrase «preventing graft rejection»

«Finding the optimal conditions to avoid interfering with immune cells working to eradicate cancer while preventing graft rejection and GVHD is the holy grail of bone marrow transplant,» says Leo Luznik, M.D., associate professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

In pre-clinical studies conducted by the researchers, a one - time, local injection of the hydrogel - drug combo prevented graft rejection for more than 100 days compared to 35.5 days for recipients receiving only tacrolimus and 11 days for recipients without treatment or only receiving hydrogel.

Not exact matches

«Inflammation is important in an injury because it helps to kill off bugs and prevent infection, but during a skin graft inflammation is a problem and can cause rejection of the new skin,» explains Dr Haycock.

MSC - induced Tregs were donor - specific since adoptive transfer of splenocytes from tolerant mice prevented the rejection of fully MHC - mismatched donor - specific secondary allografts but not of third - party grafts.

Low - dose donor CD8 + cells in the CD4 - depleted graft prevent allogeneic marrow graft rejection and severe graft - versus - host disease for chronic myeloid leukemia patients in first chronic phase.