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graft enhancement, immunologic (medicine) and boro- (iou)


graft enhancement, immunologic (medicine)


graft enhancement, immunologic


The induction of prolonged survival and growth of allografts of either tumours or normal tissues which would ordinarily be rejected. It may be induced passively by introducing graft-specific antibodies from previously immunised donors, which bind to the graft's surface antigens, masking them from recognition by T-cells; or actively by prior immunization of the recipient with graft antigens which evoke specific antibodies and form antigen-antibody complexes which bind to the antigen receptor sites of the T-cells and block their cytotoxic activity.


boro- (iou)



boro- combining form of next: see -O-.
boro'hydride noun a compound of the anion BH4 M20.
boro'silicate noun a substance derived from or containing both silica and boric oxide (B2O3), esp. a kind of glass E19.