Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "immunosuppression"
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Current status of vascularized composite tissue allotransplantation
(BioMed Central, 2014)Vascularized composite tissue allotransplantation (VCA) offers treatment options of complex functional deficiencies that cannot be repaired with conventional reconstructive methods. VCAs consist of blocks of functional ... -
Detecting the Hidden Properties of Immunological Data and Predicting the Mortality Risks of Infectious Syndromes
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)Background: To extract more information, the properties of infectious disease data, including hidden relationships, could be considered. Here, blood leukocyte data were explored to elucidate whether hidden information, if ... -
Extracellular HSPs: The Complicated Roles of Extracellular HSPs in Immunity
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)Extracellular heat-shock proteins (HSPs) interact with the immune system in a very complex manner. Many such HSPs exert powerful effects on the immune response, playing both stimulatory and regulatory roles. However, the ... -
Mixed Chimerism, Lymphocyte Recovery, and Evidence for Early Donor-Specific Unresponsiveness in Patients Receiving Combined Kidney and Bone Marrow Transplantation to Induce Tolerance
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2010)Background We have previously reported operational tolerance in patients receiving HLA-mismatched combined kidney and bone marrow transplantation (CKBMT). We now report on transient multilineage hematopoietic chimerism ... -
Novel therapeutic and diagnostic management of heart transplant patients
(EDIMES Edizioni Internazionali Srl, 2015)Heart transplantation was performed for the first time 40 years ago and it is now universally considered the “gold standard” treatment for individuals suffering from end-stage heart failure. The increased understanding of ... -
Prevalence and Abundance of Human Cutaneous Polyomaviruses in the Healthy Population and Patients with Keratinocyte Carcinomas
(2023-05-11)Background Human polyomavirus (HPyV) is a part of the healthy, commensal skin virome. However, certain HPyV species with skin tropism are linked with symptomatic inflammatory and neoplastic skin conditions in elderly and ...