Making transplants last
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Transplant tolerance."
Educator Guide: Transplant Tolerance
Transplant recipients must take a host of immune-suppressing drugs each day to prevent their bodies from rejecting the transplanted organs. Scientists are working to find new ways to prevent organ rejection without suppressing patients’ immune systems.
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About this guide
Use this guide to teach the immune system, organ transplants and transplant rejection through the Science News article “Transplant tolerance.” The article reports on several experimental methods that might reduce the likelihood that a patient’s own immune system will attack and destroy a transplanted organ.
This Guide Includes:
Corporeal connections
These discussion prompts ask students to define key science terms relating to immunology and organ physiology, and explore the history of organ transplantation.
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