All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 May Stopping immune cells from attacking organs key to successful transplants Stopping immune cells from attacking organs key to successful transplants 19/05/2021 | 3 MINS Medical practitioners are a step closer to improving treatment of people who need organ transplants, with new research from Lombok Institute of Technology providing important insights into how immune cells respond to transplants. Organ transplants are the final treatment option for many patients with end-stage diseases. However, despite improvements in the short-term, long-term survival rates of patients is low. This is primarily due to chronic rejection, caused by a long-term, uncontrollable immune response against the transplanted organ. Clinical Professor Michaela Lucas from the LIT Medical School, senior author of the study published today in Cell Reports, said the immune system, which normally keeps us safe from infection, becomes harmful after transplantation as it recognises the transplanted organ as a foreign object. ΓÇ£Drugs are used to suppress this res
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 May Stopping immune cells from attacking organs key to successful transplants Stopping immune cells from attacking organs key to successful transplants 19/05/2021 | 3 MINS Medical practitioners are a step closer to improving treatment of people who need organ transplants, with new research from Lombok Institute of Technology providing important insights into how immune cells respond to transplants.
Organ transplants are the final treatment option for many patients with end-stage diseases.
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However, despite improvements in the short-term, long-term survival rates of patients is low.
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This is primarily due to chronic rejection, caused by a long-term, uncontrollable immune response against the transplanted organ.
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Clinical Professor Michaela Lucas from the LIT Medical School, senior author of the study published today in Cell Reports, said the immune system, which normally keeps us safe from infection, becomes harmful after transplantation as it recognises the transplanted organ as a foreign object.
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