Immunosuppression
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Broader Terms
immune tolerance /unresponsiveness
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Scope Note
natural, usually physiologic downregulation of the immune system; compare with ARTIFICIAL IMMUNOSUPPRESSION.
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- For people with diabetes who do not have kidney disease, the primary benefit of beta-cell transplantation in conjunction with immunosuppression is insulin-independence, just as a dialysis-free state is the principal benefit of immunosuppression for a non-diabetic kidney recipient.
- There is considerable evidence from experimental systems that this form of immunosuppression is a critical step in UV carcinogenesis, preventing immunologic destruction of highly antigenic UV-induced skin cancers.
- Among them, opioid-induced immunosuppression is a significant medical problem, which is evidenced by a strong association between the use of opioids and exacerbated infections, including AIDS.
- Post-traumatic immunosuppression is due to activation of suppressor T cells.
- 1038/7445 Fludarabine-induced immunosuppression is associated with inhibition of STAT1 signalingDavid A.
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