In Shinto, the dead body is considered impure and dangerous, and thus quite powerful. Injuring a dead body is a serious crime. It is difficult to obtain consent from bereaved families for organ donation or dissection for medical education or pathological anatomy because Shintos relate donation to injuring a dead body. Families are concerned that they not injure the itai, the relationship between the dead person and the bereaved people.
Every year over 750,000 lives are enriched through tissue donation. Donated heart valves can replace damaged ones, allowing the heart to function well again. Musculoskeletal tissue replaces bone, tendons and ligaments lost to cancer, severe trauma, degenerative joint disease, arthritis, and other conditions. Skin can save the lives of burn victims.
After transplant you may need to change your diet. You may need to drink more water. You'll need to get laboratory tests done frequently. If you are a kidney recipient, you won't go to dialysis anymore. This is a good time to curb cigarette or alcohol use.
Drugs are taken that suppress your immune system after an organ transplant. Unfortunately, they are powerful and can affect the entire body. That means they affect your whole body instead of just the immune response to a transplanted organ.
You may need an organ transplant if one of your organs has failed. This can happen because of illness or injury. When you have an organ transplant, doctors remove an organ from another person and place it in your body. The organ may come from a living donor or a donor who has died.
Cellular memory is a theory that states the brain is not the only organ that stores memories or personality traits, that memory as a process can form in other systems in the body and can be stored in organs such as the heart.
Organ donors may be doing more than just saving lives. They may be giving a 'new life' to organ transplant recipients. According to Donate Life America's 2011 statistics, there were 8,127 deceased organ donors and 6,017 living organ donors in the United States, adding up to 28,535 organ transplants overall. The most common organ transplants include the cornea, kidney, and heart - with a heart transplant ranking the highest in five-year post-transplant survival rate of 74.9 percent. The heart ultimately stores memories through combinatorial coding by nerve cells, which allows the sensory system to recognize smells, according to cellular memory theory.
UCSF has more than a thousand "principal" researchers and 3,000 ongoing research projects. In fact, UCSF is the second largest recipient nationwide of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). UCSF received more than $460 million from NIH research and training grants, fellowships and other awards in 2008.
A strange study on lab mice indicates that giving bone marrow transplants might not just change a person's immune system, it might even change the way they act. Take a look at the mouse study and see what you think.
