Transplantation immunology is a critical field that focuses on the immune response to transplanted organs and tissues. Understanding how the immune system reacts to foreign tissues is essential ...

"Histo" means "tissue." Histocompatibility is defined as a measure of how well 2 tissues "get along with one another" when they find themselves in a confined space. The major physiologic barrier ...

Transplant immunology is the study of the immune response that occurs when an organ or tissue is moved (grafted) from one individual to another. A major problem following transplantation is that ...

Ph.D., associate professor of transplant immunology in surgery. In this study, the researchers discovered that a protein called Apex1 protects the DNA of multiplying immune cells so they can become ...

UAB is the home of internationally prominent research programs. Newer programs in Cancer Immunology, Allergy, Immunogenetics, Inflammation and Tissue Injury, Transplantation Immunology, ...

Lung transplant recipients are highly susceptible to infection, the researchers noted, and P. aeruginosa is a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia for them. Indeed, it was the most frequently isolated ...

In addition, the close collaboration between the Department of Dermatology, the Department of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy, the Transplantation Immunology at the Department of General ...

A new study shows that oral fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a feasible and safe addition to preventing graft-versus ...