Immune reset aids kidney transplants

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2963, 2014, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There's a better way to deal with rejection. People who have received a donor organ need to take a host of toxic drugs to stop their immune system attacking it. Soon they might just have their immune system rebooted--making it accept the new organ. The technique has been tried for the first time on 20 kidney transplant recipients. Normally they would have to take up to 20 drugs daily, with a risk of developing kidney failure or cancer, as well as side effects such as bloating and diarrhea. The group took part in a trial led by Allan Kirk of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He reset their immune system so that it tolerates their new kidney.