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When a Patient Is Given a Heart Transplant, the Patient

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When a patient is given a heart transplant, the patient may be treated with cyclosporine A, which suppresses T-helper cells.What do you predict the effects of this drug might be?


A) The drug will cause an autoimmune reaction, allowing the patient's immune system to accept the transplanted heart, but will make the patient more susceptible to an autoimmune disease.
B) The drug will prevent T-helper cells from secreting interleukins, allowing a more successful acceptance of the foreign heart, but could result in an overproduction of B cells that ultimately phagocytize the transplanted heart.
C) The drug will cause the transplanted heart to be recognized as self by altering the class I MHC molecules on the heart cells, but this could ultimately result in an autoimmune disease.
D) The drug will suppress the rejection of the heart transplant, and the patient will be more susceptible to infections and cancer.
E) The drug will reduce the effectiveness of the humoral immune response but not the cellular immune response, making the patient less likely to reject the transplanted heart.

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