Describe the three types of skin grafts. Which one is best? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
In an autograft, the patient's undamaged skin is used as a graft source. An allograft uses skin from a donor, and a xenograft uses skin from an animal, such as a pig. Autografts are the best because they are not rejected by the patient's immune system.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
You have a patient who severed a spinal nerve in an accident. She will only lose sensory sensation, but all motor innervation to that area will remain intact.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Every substance that enters or leaves the internal environment of the body must cross an epithelium.
A) True B) False
A transplant recipient's body rejects a transplanted organ because her ______ does not
match that of the donor closely enough. A) cytokine profile B) mononuclear phagocytic system C) antibody response D) major histocompatibility complex