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...technique, called oral tolerization, strengthens a person's immune defense system by gradually exposing the person to substances which it otherwise would reject. The procedure's name comes from the fact that the person ingests the substances orally...
Weiner said that oral tolerization could become standard medical practice in about three years. One of the main advantages of the method, he said, is the case with which it can administered...
Another significant advantage of the technique is that in contrast to immunosuppressant drugs which display serious side effects, oral tolerization produces almost no side effects whatsoever...
Carpenter is studying how oral tolerization can be used to decrease the chance of organ rejection in an organ transplant. In studies using rats and mice, he learned that hearts and kidneys from normally incompatible donors could successfully be transplanted by feeding the subjects specific peptides from the donors...
...book questions his sexual ethics and oral hygiene...