Explore: Immunological Tolerance (transplantation)

Immune tolerance, also known as immunological tolerance or immunotolerance, refers to the immune system's state of unresponsiveness to substances or tissues

organ transplantation. He and Burnet shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance". Medawar

immune tolerance from the mother. Immunological responses could be the cause in many cases of infertility and miscarriage. Some immunological factors

Spleen transplantation is the transfer of spleen or its fragments from one individual to another. It is under research for induction of immunological tolerance

"Effect of tolerance to noninherited maternal antigens on the occurrence of graft-versus-host disease after bone marrow transplantation from a parent

important implications for organ or stem cell transplantation. Chimeras typically have immunologic tolerance to both cell lines.[citation needed] Microchimerism

the immune system in immunological disorders (such as autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivities, immune deficiency, and transplant rejection); and the physical

complication after human allogeneic thymus transplantation, found in 42% of subjects over one year post-transplantation. However, this is partially explained

the Greek meaning "foreign" or strange), or heterologous transplant, is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another

com. Sánchez-Fueyo A, Strom TB (2011), Immunologic basis of graft rejection and tolerance following transplantation of liver or other solid organs. Gastroenterology