Why do organ recipients need to be a match but have to take anti rejection meds for the rest of their lives?
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Blood type match but not dna match. The body will always recognise that it is a foreign imposter. The organ is basically on life support from your body and, in turn, gives your body life support but never truly integrates with you entirely.
Your dna is a complete genetic set of instructions for your cellular makeup, and everyone’s is different. The transplanted part will always have its own set of genetic instructions and will never match your own. Your body has to be tricked into not attacking what is essentially not part of you. Forever…
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