Transplantation of tissues/organs fails often due to non-acceptance by the patient's body. Which type of immune-response is responsible for such rejections?
Autoimmune response
Cell-mediated immune response
Hormonal immune response
Physiological immune response
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Transplantation -
Very often, when some human organs like heart, eye, liver, kidney fail to function satisfactorily, transplantation is the only remedy to enable the patient to live a normal life
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For this a suitable donor is required. Grafts from just any source – an animal, another primate, or any human beings cannot be made since the grafts would be rejected sooner or later. Tissue matching, blood group matching are essential before undertaking any graft/transplant and even after this the patient has to take immuno–suppresants all his/her life. The body is able to differentiate ‘self ’ and ‘nonself’ and the cell-mediated immune response is responsible for the graft rejection
Transplantation may be rejected in a patient due to the cell-mediated immune response that is mediated by T-lymphocytes.
Option 1)
Autoimmune response
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Option 2)
Cell-mediated immune response
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Option 3)
Hormonal immune response
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Option 4)
Physiological immune response
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