"Tissue rejection" refers to the body's immune system identifying and attacking foreign tissues that have been transplanted into the body. This can happen when the immune system recognizes the transplanted tissue as different and harmful, leading to an immune response against it.
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Bone marrow is easy to extract from patients, and the therapeutic cells derived from it are a perfect genetic match for patients, greatly reducing the risk
of tissue rejection.
Such characteristics enable iPSCs to be used in several applications of regenerative medicine, particularly because they can be derived from an individual's own cells
so tissue rejection problems are not encountered.
Large quantities of these reverted cells could be used to treat anything from spinal cord injury to liver damage without the risk of
tissue rejection, said Robert Weinberg, a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and co-author of a study appearing in Cell.
Patients also could rely on donated bones, but these run the risk of contamination and
tissue rejection.
Vegetative compatibility (vc) systems are a fungal equivalent of
the tissue rejection systems in humans, enabling the fungus to distinguish between self and non-self.
Studies with rats have led to advances in the understanding of
tissue rejection and transplant biology.
Of 69 rodent pairs, 11 did die of «parabiotic disease,» essentially a form of
tissue rejection, but in the other pairs, the effects were noticeably positive — although only for the older mice.
It looks like Tremors (in its setting, but especially when a bunch of rubber snakes are shoved sideways out of holes), proceeds like Outbreak, and stops in Slither territory, with all
the tissue rejection such a union predicts.
Bad Company is a turbid cross between Twins, Enemy of the State, and La Femme Nikita, with all of
the tissue rejection such a massively unwise series of grafts would suggest.
All rest on the premise that a single concept can be fruitfully applied across all industries and professions without «
tissue rejection.»
Tissue rejection is still a problem which hasn't been solved for dogs.
«There will be no part of the body that will not be duplicated in the future, ranging from inexpensive customized prosthetics to bioprinted organs using the patient's own stem cells so that
tissue rejection will not be an issue,» he told TechNewsWorld.
If you don't do this, you can fall victim to what recruiters call «
tissue rejection,» shorthand for «S / he got fired because they couldn't fit in.»