Immunosuppressive Agents in Intracellular Infection: Besnoitiosis in Hamsters

Besnoitiosis in Hamsters

gen mustard, 6-mercaptopurine, and vinblastine exhibited slight immunosuppressive activity. Established immunity was especially labile to cortisol and cortisone administration with generalized Besnoitia relapse occurring consistently in all hamsters; this occurred infrequently during cyclophosphamide treatment. Focal relapse was seen in chronically irradiated and ALS-treated hamsters, but the l...

Immunosuppressive agents and cytomegalovirus infection.

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is the major infectious complication observed after organ transplantation. As rejection episodes always occur in allograft-transplanted recipients, various kinds of immunosuppressive agents are used to control such rejection episodes. Among the commonly used immunosuppressive agents, anti-pan-T cell polyclonal and monoclonal antibody are known to increase the ris...

Medicinal Plants as Immunosuppressive Agents in Traditional Iranian Medicine

[Immunosuppressive agents in Dermatology].

Immunosupressants are drugs that act in cell division and have anti-inflammatory effects. Therefore, they are essentially prescribed in the prevention of transplant rejection and in the treatment of autoimmune disorders and chronic inflammatory diseases, whose main example in Dermatology is psoriasis. In this work the most important immunosuppressive drugs and orientation to properly administer...

Pharmacological immunosuppressive agents.

A vast range of different compounds seem capable of depressing the immune response, however, it has been disappointing that so few of these have shown potential as immunosuppressive agents in man. The action of many has been to suppress lymphocyte reactivity in vitro and of those that are capable of prolonging graft survival in animals in addition, just a handful have been found to be safe and ...