An allogenic skin graft allows a person with a burn to receive skin from a donor. Patients are often given drugs to suppress their immune system. Why would a patient need to be given these drugs? The body would recognize the donor tissue as foreign material and would mount an immune response. More blood is needed to heal tissue and thus would result in great vascularization of the tissue. Nerve endings would be regenerated. Pain would be diminished during the transplant.

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Tilly

4 February, 18:49

An allogenic skin graft allows a person with a burn to receive skin from a donor. Patients are often given drugs to suppress their immune system. Why would a patient need to be given these drugs? The body would recognize the donor tissue as foreign material and would mount an immune response. More blood is needed to heal tissue and thus would result in great vascularization of the tissue. Nerve endings would be regenerated. Pain would be diminished during the transplant.

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Xander · Answer 1

Patients are given drugs to suppress their immune system so that the system does not work against foreign body in the organism, as it otherwise would, since in this case the foreign body (the new skin) is desired: the correct answer is that The body would recognize the donor tissue as foreign material and would mount an immune response.