BIOL 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Cell-Mediated Immunity, Immunosuppression, Immunity (Medical)
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Transplantaion is the process where the living donor issues are transferred to a recipient organism. From one part of the body to another. Grat rejecion is an adapive immune response, we know this because histological examinaion showed cell mediated immunity and ater rejecion, recipient body developed immunological memory where rejecion of issue second ime round was more rapid. The anigens responsible for rejecion are called histocompaibility anigens located on the major histocompaibility complex (mhc). Mhc molecules present anigenic pepides to t cells; mhc i present to cd8 t cells and mhc ii present to cd4 t cells. The t cells are the central part in the rejecion of grats, consising of a sensiizaion stage and the efector stage.
