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To: TChris

Very interesting. I wonder if the donor had immunities the recipient didn’t have or vice versa. Could be interesting to see if the recipient can get chicken pox again or something similar.

Something like this could lead to putting stem cells from the donor into all major transplant recipients.


3 posted on 01/25/2008 7:59:45 AM PST by cripplecreek (Duncan Hunter, Conservative excellence in action.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yeah, but suppose the donor cells think the recipients
other tissue is foreign, and start attacking it?
So the patient has a good transplanted organ, but the
rest of the body goes to you know where.

So alot has to be worked out...the news reports with it’s
absolutely poor knowledge base reports matters as if they
are simple things...in fact, they are incredibly complex.


16 posted on 01/25/2008 9:51:19 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: cripplecreek

The girl has had to be revaccinated against diseases she’d been previously vaccinated against because she’d lost that protection.


20 posted on 01/25/2008 6:46:59 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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