Word: transplanters
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Still, Hiltons are not always appreciated, being regarded not only as hotels but as a cultural transplant from America. The local "atmosphere" sometimes misfires. Spaniards laughed the peasant-garbed waiters at Madrid's Castellana Hilton right back into tie and tails, and Hilton had to change the name of the Opium Den bar in his Hong Kong hotel after the Chinese took offense (it is now simply The Den). The popular BBC television satire show, That Was the Week That Was, opened fire at Hilton with a mock Bible lesson: "Brethren, in the beginning there was darkness upon...
...moment a method is found to control the immune mechanism in man, there will be a flood of transplants of many organs. The kidney has been favored up to now, because one kidney is enough for anyone, and everyone with a healthy pair is a potential donor. Even so, the kidney may not prove to be the easiest or the most wanted transplant. The pancreas, source of insulin, would be a boon to a diabetic. Dr. Moore is already making experimental transplants of whole livers between dogs. In Denver, two months ago. Colorado General Hospital and Veterans Administration Hospital surgeons...
They attacked a basic transplant problem. Donated tissue usually is assaulted by antibodies in the host, resulting in a transplant that does not "take." So the male host was given drugs (azathiopurine and azaserine) that experiments had shown to be the most effective in interfering with transplant rejection...
...near the hipbone. Working quickly, the surgeons sutured vein, artery and ureter of the kidney to the host's blood vessels and ureter. After clamps were removed, blood began to course through the kidney. But it will be months before the doctors will know for sure whether the transplant was a success...