What is "immunosuppressive"

Usage examples of "immunosuppressive".

By the end of the decade powerful immunosuppressive drugs, such as 6-mercaptopurine, had been shown to be capable of holding in abeyance the reactivity of dogs to renal homografts, and soon afterward this principle was successfully extended to man.

I mean, if we had done five years of work, we would have the results of animal tests, vector tests, immunosuppressive protocols, all kinds of steps to increase your chance of success.

Then you have to wait for someone right to die, and you take all these immunosuppressive drugs that make life unpleasant.

As a heart and lung transplant surgeon who routinely gave my axi patients strong immunosuppressive medicines that made them more susceptible to infections, I, by necessity, became a specialist in infectious diseases.

Progress stalled until 1962, when a chemist named Gertrude Elion invented Imuran, a drug with powerful immunosuppressive abilities.

If successful, it could lead to acceptance of the foreign organ, without the need for immunosuppressive medications.

She talked about an immunosuppressive regimen, and said the chances of his surviving were very good.

Immunosuppressive oxidative stress, as a consequence either of environment or behavior, is also a common denominator across all of the recognized AIDS risk groups.