A variety of research studies are underway at area medical schools and hospitals, from figuring out why lung transplants aren’t as successful as other organ transplants to whether stem cell therapy can help avoid amputations. Using drugs to broadly suppress the immune system helps the body accept organ transplants of hearts, livers and kidneys. But not so with lung transplants, new research at Washington University School of Medicine suggests. In what researchers call a “surprising discovery,” newly transplanted lungs in mice were more likely to be rejected if key immune cells called memory T cells were missing. Typically, memory T cells are...
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