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Rejection of a transplanted organ is made less likely by

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 Rejection of a transplanted organ is made less likely by.


  1. Treatment which reduces the blood lymphocyte count.
  2. Keeping the recipient in a germ-free environment.
  3. Irradiation of the transplanted organ with X-rays.
  4. Drugs which interfere with mitosis.
  5. Transplanting between identical twins.

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A. True  T lymphocytes are responsible for tissue rejection.

B. False  This environment may be necessary because of suppression of the recipient’s immune responses; it has no bearing on the rejection process.

C. False  This would not affect the transplant antigens.

D. True  These suppress the multiplication of lymphocytic stem cells.

E. True  Identical twins have identical antigens and do not reject each other’s tissues

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