Transplant Biology at a Crossroads: Surgeons can now give patients a new hand or even a new face, but they still can't provide any guarantees that the benefits are worth the risks.

Despite major advances in transplantation biology, allowing transplants not just of critical organs like heart and kidney but also of limbs and faces, researchers are still struggling to minimize the risks from achieving the level of immunosuppression needed to make the body accept foreign tissues.

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Autor principal: Sedwick, Caitlin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18351806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060070
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spelling pubmed-22678152008-03-18 Transplant Biology at a Crossroads: Surgeons can now give patients a new hand or even a new face, but they still can't provide any guarantees that the benefits are worth the risks. Sedwick, Caitlin PLoS Biol Feature Despite major advances in transplantation biology, allowing transplants not just of critical organs like heart and kidney but also of limbs and faces, researchers are still struggling to minimize the risks from achieving the level of immunosuppression needed to make the body accept foreign tissues. Public Library of Science 2008-03 2008-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2267815/ /pubmed/18351806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060070 Text en © 2008 Caitlin Sedwick. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Transplant Biology at a Crossroads: Surgeons can now give patients a new hand or even a new face, but they still can't provide any guarantees that the benefits are worth the risks.
title Transplant Biology at a Crossroads: Surgeons can now give patients a new hand or even a new face, but they still can't provide any guarantees that the benefits are worth the risks.
title_full Transplant Biology at a Crossroads: Surgeons can now give patients a new hand or even a new face, but they still can't provide any guarantees that the benefits are worth the risks.
title_fullStr Transplant Biology at a Crossroads: Surgeons can now give patients a new hand or even a new face, but they still can't provide any guarantees that the benefits are worth the risks.
title_full_unstemmed Transplant Biology at a Crossroads: Surgeons can now give patients a new hand or even a new face, but they still can't provide any guarantees that the benefits are worth the risks.
title_short Transplant Biology at a Crossroads: Surgeons can now give patients a new hand or even a new face, but they still can't provide any guarantees that the benefits are worth the risks.
title_sort transplant biology at a crossroads: surgeons can now give patients a new hand or even a new face, but they still can't provide any guarantees that the benefits are worth the risks.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18351806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060070
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