SP799HEPATITIS E AND IMMUNOSUPPRESSION

Immunosuppression minimization: current and future trends in transplant immunosuppression.

The past decade has witnessed unprecedented advances in renal transplantation propelled by novel and effective immunosuppression drugs. The introduction of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), tacrolimus, cyclosporine microemulsion, sirolimus, a new generation of monoclonal antibodies (the anti–interleukin-2 receptor blockers, daclizumab and basiliximab), and the depleting polyclonal biologic Thymoglob...

Sunscreen and immunosuppression.

Recently, Walker and Young (1997) reported that ultraviolet (UV) B sunscreens offer the same UVB protection factors against inflammation and immunosuppression in the mouse . The authors studied the relationship between photoprotection of inflammation and immunosuppression with monochromatic (Phi lips TL-01 tubes, A..,. _,= 311mll) UVB radiation. T he UVB dose-response curve for murine edema was...

Immunosuppression and Malignancy

The increasing use over the past decade of powerful immunosuppressive drugs provides an opportunity for testing the validity of the theory that cancer results from a breakdown of the body's "immunological surveillance." This concept, first proposed by L. Thomas' and since developed by Sir Macfarlane Burnet,2 holds that such a breakdown allows the proliferation of abnormal cells, with the eventu...

Steroids and modern immunosuppression.

Chagas disease and immunosuppression.