When a client with a kidney transplant develops graft versus host disease, a suicide gene transfer can be accomplished by:

Question

A) Giving a blood transfusion from the donor
B) Infusion of donor lymphocytes
C) Increasing the dose of corticosteroids
D) Administering radioactive tracer cells

Answer 1

Ans: B
Feedback:
To date, gene therapy has been used successfully to treat children with severe combined immunodeficiency disease and in a suicide gene transfer to facilitate treatment of graft versus host disease after donor lymphocyte infusion. One of the main approaches to gene therapy is the transferring of genes to replace or selectively inhibit defective ones. Giving a blood transfusion, increasing the steroid dose, or administering a radioactive tracer will assist in the treatment of graft versus host disease.