A patient is discussing a liver transplant with the transplant team. The physician is explaining the effort made to match what in the donor tissue?
A) Histocompatability antigens
B) Lipoproteins
C) Non-self-markers
D) Receptor sites
A
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The body's immune system recognizes these proteins and acts to protect self-cells and to destroy non-self-cells. When an organ is transplanted from one person to another, a great effort is made to match as many histocompatibility antigens as possible to reduce the chance that the "new" body will reject the transplanted organ.
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