Transplantation of tissues/organs to save certain patients often fails due to rejection of such tissues/organs by the patient. Which type of immune response is responsible for such rejections?
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Verified by ExpertsTransplantation is the replacement of a diseased organ or tissue of an individual with healthy organ or tissue of same or another individual. These transplants or graft gets rejected if it is recognised as foreign antigen by the body's immune systems. Cell- mediated immune response mediated by T-lymphocyte is able to differentiate between self and non-self cells/organ. This type of immune response recognise the body's non-cells or other tissue or organs from other individual as foreign antigen and cause rejection of the graft.
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