Uremia—Nature's Immunosuppressive Device
Authors: H. SHERWOOD LAWRENCE
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1965)

Editorials1 January 1965Uremia—Nature's Immunosuppressive DeviceH. SHERWOOD LAWRENCE, M.D.H. SHERWOOD LAWRENCE, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-62-1-166 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptOf the many enigmas arising from studies of the immunology of homograft rejection, one of the more elusive has been the mechanism that favors prolonged survival of renal homografts in sick people, while skin homografts exchanged between normal individuals undergo prompt rejection. An early pre-occupation with this apparent paradox led Dammin, Couch, and Murray (1) to study the role of uremia in conditioning the human host's response to skin homografts. 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