Patent ID: 7988951

Claim:
A method for selectively suppressing the immune response of an intended transplant recipient receiving a transplantation of bone marrow or stem cells, comprising the steps of: (a) removing a piece of skin from each of the two biological parents of the intended transplant recipient of the bone marrow or stem cell transplantation; (b) allografting the skin from each of the biological parents to the donor of the bone marrow or stem cells to be transplanted; (c) monitoring the donor to determine when an immunological response to the allografted skin occurs in the donor and obtaining a quantity of blood for treatment after an immunological response is observed; (d) treating an extracorporeal quantity of blood from the donor to induce at least one of apoptosis or necrosis of T cells present in the extracorporeal quantity of blood; (e) treating the extracorporeal quantity of blood from the donor by flowing the blood through an apparatus having plastic channels having a diameter of between about 0.5 mm and 5.0 mm; (f) incubating the extracorporeal quantity of blood; and (g) administering the extracorporeal quantity of blood to the intended transplant recipient.