Potential New Strategy to Improve Odds of Corneal Transplant Acceptance Identified

For ten percent of patients whose bodies reject a corneal transplant, the odds of a second transplant succeeding are poor. All that could change, however, based on a UT Southwestern Medical Center study that has found a way to boost the corneal transplant acceptance rate. In the study, researchers found that corneal transplants in mice were accepted 90 percent of the time when the action of an immune system molecule called interferon-gamma (IFN- (and) #947;) ...

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Written by: editor - Tuesday, December 31, 2013