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Monkeying around to improve organ transplantation
Organ transplantation is accompanied by nonspecific immune suppression therapy to prevent T cell-mediated rejection. These immunosuppressants can cause infection, hypertension, cancer, and other undesirable side effects. Therefore, specific suppression of the T cells that attack the transplanted organ is needed. . It was known that anergic T cells (immune T cells that do not respond to antigen st...