How to Use immunosuppressive in a Sentence

immunosuppressive

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• There are even some transplant patients walking around who no longer take any immunosuppressive drugs, or who take them once a month.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• If the parents want another child, the uterus is left in place and the mom continues taking immunosuppressive drugs.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 July 2023
• Receptors for testosterone are found on the surface of B and T cells, and the hormone is largely immunosuppressive.
  — Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• Does meat or blood have some sort of immunosuppressive factors that allow for HPV-7 to blossom on butchers' hands?
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2011
• That means patients must take an array of immunosuppressive drugs, which have side effects and can shorten lives.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 16 Apr. 2021
• Use of the immunosuppressive drug increased in the later half of 2020, with the highest prescribing in counties with the highest shares of Republican votes.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2022
• Back then, the main tool available to these doctors were primitive immunosuppressive drugs.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
• But in most of the body, they get eliminated by the immune system—except in the core of the tumor because the tumor is an immunosuppressive environment.
  — Sarah Vitak, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2021
• Another unknown is whether pausing immunosuppressive drugs in people who are able to do so may help with a vaccine response in these cases.
  — Tara C. Smith, SELF, 27 Aug. 2021
• As a transplant recipient, the 43-year-old oil and gas worker will forever be on immunosuppressive drugs to prevent his body from rejecting the lungs.
  — David Heath, USA TODAY, 30 June 2021
• The researchers prescribed patients an eight-week course of immunosuppressive eyedrops to lower the risk, which is less than the amount given to people who receive cornea transplants from human tissue.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2022
• Finally, doctors were able to shorten the time between surgery and embryo-transfer, so the recipients are on immunosuppressive drugs for less time.
  — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 19 Nov. 2020
• Standard immunosuppressive drugs were then given for the remaining three days.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2022
• The authors of the report believe that androgens (male hormones) are linked to the coronavirus infection and immunosuppressive effects.
  — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• But immunosuppressive therapies or diseases sometimes rouse the virus from its slumber.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 14 Dec. 2022
• Others believe such patients may not be able to comply with post-transplant requirements, such as taking immunosuppressive drugs.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2021
• In all, abou t a third of patients went into remission, rates similar to those seen with immunosuppressive medications.
  — Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• Others, such as those who are on immunosuppressive treatment due to another condition, might make fewer antibodies and for only a short time.
  — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2020
• The men also received immunosuppressive drugs, such as glucocorticoids and tacrolimus, to keep their immune systems from rejecting the therapy.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 July 2022
• The mom-to-be is given immunosuppressive medications after the transplant and throughout the pregnancy to prevent transplant rejection.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 July 2023
• Menachery received a transplant three months ago, and has been taking immunosuppressive medications since—a major shift to his risk status, and his outlook on reinfection writ large.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 27 May 2022
• To qualify, patients must be 65 or older or have a body mass index greater than 35 or have health conditions such as chronic kidney disease, diabetes or immunosuppressive disease.
  — Jesus Jimenez, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2021
• Some of the weakened response appears to be related to certain immunosuppressive drugs, and potentially a commonly prescribed steroid.
  — Author: Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 19 May 2021
• All three patients were listed as candidates for lung transplants, an option doctors hope to avoid because patients require immunosuppressive drugs and often die within five to 10 years after transplant.
  — Hang Do Thi Duc, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• For now, the CDC recommends that patients starting immunosuppressive therapies get vaccinated at least two weeks prior.
  — Dr. Amanda Benarroch, Olivia Davies, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2021
• Kirk attributed the change to genetic engineering and to better immunosuppressive drugs.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Over the last almost four decades a toxic triad of immunosuppressive medicines — calcineurin inhibitors, antimetabolites, steroids — has remained essentially the same with limited exceptions.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 19 Apr. 2023
• So, an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive drug like dexamethasone seems to only come in handy when cytokines start going rogue.
  — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020
• The guidance says that people taking immunosuppressive medications should discuss the need for personal protective measures with their health-care providers even if they are fully vaccinated.
  — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2021
• Lastly, persons undergoing high-dose steroid treatments, which are immunosuppressive, also are eligible for the additional dose, the panel said.
  — Johnny Edwards, ajc, 13 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 22 Jul 2024