Word: suppressant
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...Less Suppression. Denver, where the first such operation was performed in March 1963 by the University of Colorado's Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, remains the liver-transplant capital of the world, with six recipients surviving. The early operations five years ago, says Starzl, were tragic. Although surgeons were sure that the procedure would work, the longest survival among the first patients was 23 days. In most cases, death resulted from infection, to which the patients were especially susceptible because of generous use of drugs to suppress the mechanism by which the body rejects foreign protein...
What is ALG? It is the nearest thing to a natural medication yet found to suppress the mechanism by which the body seeks to reject any foreign protein implanted in it. By that mechanism, the human system produces antibodies that attack the proteins in the transplants. The antibodies are made or transported by white blood cells, or lymphocytes, which multiply astronomically in the presence of foreign tissue...
...could find more than lukewarm approval in the ghetto today?so deep are the enmities, so profound the suspicions of the fuzz or, sometimes, "Chuck,"* The very presence of cops in the slums, many Negro militants maintain, represents society's goal to protect the white man's property and suppress the black man's right...
...time a couple applies for a license and the marriage, in order to discourage hasty unions. That is hardly likely to take hold everywhere in the Soviet Union, as is illustrated by one local problem brought out in recent press discussions: the government has so far been unable to suppress the mating habits of males in the Caucasus region, who woo their brides by abducting and raping them...
...over-shadowed election eve, Kennedy was by turns witty, self-depracating, and bitterly vociferous against the Vietnam war and urban violence in TV interviews. Throughout the evening, he seemed unable to suppress a broad, smile...