Science news articles about 'journal transplantation'

  • New laboratory technique improves success in 'highly sensitized' kidney transplants

    ... antigens, according to an article in the Sept. 27 issue of the journal Transplantation. Tissue compatibility issues exist ... more accurately which patients are the best candidates to have a successful transplant with a low risk of acute rejection. We also can predict ...
  • Cancer drug effectively treats transplant rejections

    ... are published in the Dec. 27, 2008, edition of the journal Transplantation. Steve Woodle, MD, and colleagues ... response by making immune proteins that attack transplanted organs. "We found a body of literature demonstrating that bortezomib ...
  • Device protects transplanted pancreatic cells from the immune system

    ... 1 diabetes, was published online on April 8 in the journal Transplantation. The team of scientists showed ... 's team found that by using precursor cells that had not completely differentiated, the transplanted cells could regenerate into fully functional beta ...
  • Transplant patients have worse cancer outcomes, analysis shows

    ... . These results will be published in the May 15, 2009, edition of the journal Transplantation, which is currently in press. Yun Miao ... this premise, as the extent of the cancers at diagnosis were greater in the transplant recipients," Woodle continues. "This was surprising since ...
  • Sight for sore eyes

    ... detailing the breakthrough appears in the high-impact journal Transplantation this week. The trial was conducted on three patients; two with extensive corneal damage resulting ...
  • Affordable anti-rejection drug as effective as higher cost option

    ... and a fraction of the cost?" For the study, published recently in the journal Transplantation, researchers looked at the two most common ... this study – one of the largest single-institution trials for transplantation drugs – to reflect the actual demographics of the Medical ...
  • Stem cells restore sight in mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa

    ... . The study appears online ahead of print in the journal Transplantation (March 27, 2010 print ... ) and Joaquin Tosi (ophthalmology) used this technique to place transplanted stem cells underneath the retina. Dr ...
  • Successful kidney transplantation despite tissue incompatibility

    ... in this area. The results of the study were published in the prestigious journal "Transplantation". When the kidneys no longer function ... , for example after pregnancies, blood transfusions, or previous transplantations, and therefore have only a slight chance of receiving a donor ...

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