0 a situation in which the body's immune system is intentionally stopped from working, or is made less effective, usually by drugs, especially in order to help the body accept an organ that has been taken from another person's body: --
If the benefit is insufficient, immunosuppression with prednisolone and azathioprine is often helpful.
They stated that the link between hydrocarbon-induced immunosuppression and gill parasites, although often theorised, had never been tested.
Limitations to its use may include the need for more aggressive immunosuppression and lack of human growth factors provided exclusively by human fetal cells.
The full potential of transplantation will be realised only when alternatives to non-specific immunosuppression are found.
Most are systemically well although there is an association with malignant disease and immunosuppression.
Death was in all cases principally the result of infection following bone marrow suppression and immunosuppression.
The triple immunosuppression consisted of cyclosporin, azothioprin and prednisolone tapering from 2 to 0.2 mg/kg/day in the first 6 months.
In animal models of these procedures, the acceptance of subsequent grafts is often achieved without the need for additional immunosuppression.
