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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1986
Keith Reemtsma, New York, NY (US);
Mark A Hardy, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Henry T Lau, New York, NY (US);
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A patient's acceptance of a transplanted organ or tissue from a donor may be enhanced by irradiating donor-specific blood with ultraviolet-B radiation at a dosage of less than 1000 J/M.sup.2 so as to render the blood capable of inducing donor-specific immunological unresponsiveness in the patient, transfusing the irradiated, donor-specific blood into the patient prior to transplanting the organ or tissue into the patient to enhance subsequent acceptance of the organ or tissue by the patient, and thereafter transplanting the organ or tissue into the subject. A patient's acceptance of transplanted organs and tissues can also be enhanced by removing the organ or tissue from the donor and irradiating the organ or tissue to be transplanted with ultraviolet-B radiation at a dosage of less than 1000 J/m.sup.2 so as to enhance acceptance of the transplanted organ or tissue and then transplanting the irradiated organ or tissue into patient.