Then those cells, patients hope, could be turned into replacement tissue to treat or cure their disease without provoking rejection from the body's immune system.
It was the way that Xavi saw the game – "if not, what are you playing for?" At times, that has provoked rejection from those who see football differently: Xavi is like the leader of a sect, they complain, refusing to admit other ways of playing.
The factors that provoke graft rejection are called transplantation, or histocompatibility, antigens.
The hope is that those stem cells can generate organs that would not provoke immune rejection when transplanted into the patient who provided the cells for cloning.
Church has since formed a company named eGenesis Bio to develop humanized pigs that do not provoke a rejection response or transfer viruses to people.
In other words, iPSCs, even autologous, might provoke immune rejection.
Semi-allogeneic trophoblast expressing paternal antigens should be recognized as foreign by maternal immune cells and provoke a rejection response.
In particular, the oral spines are sensory structures placed around the mouth; if stimulated, they are able to provoke a rejection response and the expulsion of water [ 14- 16].
This finding is not surprising since it is well known that different MHC molecules can provoke strong rejection mechanisms in recipients.
My experience is that these observations, if presented sensitively, do not provoke horror or rejection in either patients or their relatives, not least because they are consistent with the patients' and relatives' own experiences.
