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Article: Visualizing relationships between data: origin data analysis software helps show the synergistic effects of drugs in facilitating transplants.
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- Scientific Computing & Instrumentation
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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a recent study by researchers at Goteborg University in Goteborg, Sweden, demonstrates that two common immunosuppressive drugs used in transplant surgery actually work much better in combination than separately. The researchers led by Dr. Michael Olausson of the Department of Transplantation and Liver Surgery showed that two common transplant drugs that have been used separately but never before in combination have major synergistic effects that make it possible to reduce the dosage of each, which should lower side effects. The effects of the drugs were studied by grafting heart tissue to the necks of laboratory rats and measuring how long the graft tissue survived. An ...