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Ironic Twist of Fate Leaves Angel Beats Creator in Need of Heart Transplant
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2016-07-30, 06:51 | Link #12647 |
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Well that sucks for Maeda.
And now for some funny news. Bikini-clad Swedish policewoman 'stops thief'
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2016-07-30, 20:37 | Link #12650 |
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http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/28/12...-lo-and-behold
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2016-07-30, 22:48 | Link #12651 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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2016-07-30, 23:57 | Link #12653 |
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It's not just the blood type that flags it as an foreign object. Can't recall the specifics off the top of my head, but in simplified terms, each cell has a "coating" of receptors that your immune system checks to see if it has the same "code" as your own cells. If the code does not match, your immune system will declare war on it and attempt to destroy it. Simple-minded terminators that they are.
That's why most successful donors tend to be from direct family members, as their "body code" will be very similar to yours. This is also why donor recipients undergo a lot of immune-system-suppression therapy after receiving a donated implant. Cheers.
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2016-07-31, 02:26 | Link #12654 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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Like for example with lung transplants usually it buys 5 years before the transplant starts to wear down from the body's own immune response and another new transplant is needed Regardless of how similar the donor and recipient's MHC (HLA) receptor molecules are, ultimately, as long as there are foreign antigens being exposed to the recipient's immune system, transplant rejection will eventually happen.
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2016-07-31, 05:47 | Link #12655 |
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Hence why the ability to grow human clone organs in the lab is one of the current targets of science. Not only will they be fully accepted by the body, you also don't need to wait for someone else to die either.
I know they've done it with pig hearts, so it can't be too far away, hopefully close enough for Maeda to benefit from it. |
2016-07-31, 08:10 | Link #12658 |
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Organs? Still long way away....Even stem cells aren't fully mature therapy yet. It's not as simple as just grafting stem cells into an organ and pray they integrate. You need to ensure cellular differentiation occurs in a finely guided enough manner especially in something like the heart. You don't want say....electro-conductive pacemaker cells appearing where they shouldn't. And specifically in cardiology, we have barely even fully understood the cardiomyocyte development process beyond the early stages. After all that is kind of like right now the big goal in the field
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