immunosuppressant

The counterargument is of course that transplants and immunosuppressant drugs are also artificial, and even more recent.

Typically, after a kidney transplant, patients are instructed to take immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of their lives.

It’s an immunosuppressant, isn’t it a bit counter productive for old people that tends to be weaker?

During pregnancy the mother was on a triple immunosuppressant regimen: azathioprine, tacrolimus, and prednisolone (corticosteroid).

One thing that's fascinating to me is that most immunosuppressant drugs used today hadn't yet been discovered in the early 60s!

Some of the immunosuppressant drugs were discovered from bacteria in soil including Tacrolimus and Sirolimus.

>Patients may have to take the immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of their lives, the Vertex spokeswoman said.

Lots of biotech companies are working on immunosuppressant-free islet-equivalent transplantation.

My father was on a long-term maintenance dose of immunosuppressant (I think prednisolone, but I could be misremembering) following his kidney transplant.

Stop the immunosuppressant pills and see what happens.

Except I have to take immunosuppressant medication to keep the Crohn's controlled, which means I get sick (cold, flu, etc.) extremely easily, and I stay sick a lot longer.

The immunosuppressant effects are a side-effect.

This would make it possible to implant an "artificial pancreas" without needing life-long immunosuppressant therapy.

Because nerves are critical to bodily function and don't regenerate nearly as efficiently as (for example) skin, liver, or other "sheet tissues" (tissue made of small cells is easier to regenerate; nerves can be as long as a meter and regeneration involves growing a new cell that entire distance), the body has a pile of immunosuppressant signals to prevent killing the nerve while trying to fight an infection.