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Life Sciences => Cells, Microbes & Viruses => Topic started by: Lewis Thomson on 24/02/2022 11:15:41

Title: Can we use pieces of the gut to aid in organ transplant?
Post by: Lewis Thomson on 24/02/2022 11:15:41

Martin has been thinking about this and would like some extra insight.

"If the gut has a mechanism to stop our food causing an allergic reaction to the proteins we ingest; is it possible to use excised pieces of gut to house foreign transplanted organs (i.e. kidney) and in so doing NOT get rejection."

Leave your findings in the comments below...

Title: Re: Can we use pieces of the gut to aid in organ transplant?
Post by: alancalverd on 24/02/2022 11:21:11

Pieces of liver certainly help with most major transplants, but tissue rejection (local failure to thrive)  isn't the same as allergy (systemic reaction to an allergen).