Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a chemical substance produced by some soil fungi, which suppresses the cellular immune response by inhibiting T cell activation, and has been used in medicine to reduce foreign tissue rejection, especially subsequent to organ transplant surgery.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
cyclosporine .
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Examples
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The Swiss pharmaceutical Sandoz discovered the immunosuppressant cyclosporin from the insect-killing Cordyceps fungus and changed human-organ transplant surgery.
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Other immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclosporin which allows for the use of less steroid but is a powerful drug that absolutely affects the patient's immune system.
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Closest OTTOMH is "cyclosporin" but googlers, or real medical peeps on this forum, can do better, I'm sure.
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Other immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclosporin which allows for the use of less steroid but is a powerful drug that absolutely affects the patient's immune system.
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Those rejection problem could be solved by using drugs such as cyclosporin which suppress the immune system.
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"Under normal circumstances, the body would attack a transplanted organ unless immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclosporin were given," said Sprent.
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"Under normal circumstances, the body would attack a transplanted organ unless immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclosporin were given," said Sprent.
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"Under normal circumstances, the body would attack a transplanted organ unless immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclosporin were given," said Sprent.
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"Under normal circumstances, the body would attack a transplanted organ unless immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclosporin were given," said Sprent.
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Professor Sprent says under normal circumstances, the body would attack a transplanted organ unless immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclosporin were given - in this new research mice were given a substance, or 'complex', that altered their immune systems, so that they accepted transplanted cells as their own.
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