PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 18 -- The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center issued the following news release:

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First-in-Human Trial Primes Immune System to Accept Donor Livers

UPMC and University of Pittsburgh clinician-scientists have weaned and kept multiple liver transplantation patients off of all immunosuppressant drugs for more than three years through a first-in-human clinical trial of a unique "immune priming" therapy.

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