How to Use immunosuppression in a Sentence

immunosuppression

noun
  • This immunosuppression may last from months to three years.
    — Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • His son had a heart transplant and is on immunosuppression drugs.
    — Laura Pappano, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
  • People with other forms of immunosuppression should check with their doctor for advice.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 19 May 2021
  • The levels of immunosuppression drugs in your bloodstream must be kept within a narrow window.
    — Sara Hoffman, Verywell Health, 16 Dec. 2025
  • But doctors today are still dealing with the challenges of immunosuppression.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA Today, 3 May 2026
  • Later that same year, long-term immunosuppression was achieved by combining azathioprine with steroids.
    — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2023
  • These aren’t the only drugs that cause immunosuppression, however.
    — Popular Science, 18 May 2020
  • For those living with immunosuppression, new measures to stop a novel strain of the coronavirus are really old measures.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The researchers say this state of immunosuppression could make cardiac tissue more vulnerable.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Since the diagnosis, Gonzalo has kept up with immunosuppression treatments that have slowly raised his blood cell counts.
    — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
  • Those most at risk are usually age extremes (young or old), those with immunosuppression, and those staying in hospitals for a prolonged period.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 16 Mar. 2022
  • This virus can cause immunosuppression and severe disease in cetaceans–whales, dolphins and porpoises–and has caused several mass die-offs in these animals.
    — Juana Summers, NPR, 26 Dec. 2025
  • With each new iteration of transgenic pig, testing was required to assess the potential for graft survival and best use of immunosuppression.
    — Joshua Mezrich, STAT, 9 June 2026
  • Measles also causes immune amnesia, wiping out immune memory and leading to immunosuppression that may last up to three years.
    — Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • But given that these valves don’t have much blood supply, researchers hope immune cells can’t get to them as easily—meaning recipients won’t need as much immunosuppression.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • This is particularly true for those with severe immunosuppression.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 19 May 2021
  • That’s because these medications cause a degree of immunosuppression.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The next step, researchers say, is to use the same combination of genetic engineering and immunosuppression to fully replace a baboon heart with a pig heart.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2014
  • Those patients who were classified as having severe immunosuppression had a malignancy, or had a [bone marrow] transplant.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Additional edits to pig organs or progress in tolerance medicine might make long-term immunosuppression unnecessary.
    — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Ramsay Hunt is caused by times of high stress or immunosuppression, as well as by immunosuppressant drugs or other underlying conditions.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 10 June 2022
  • Her research carried the hope of helping to create treatments to decrease the immunosuppression of T cells, especially among older people.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
  • But in middle age, there’s a slight uptick in the number of women—in particular, pregnant women in the midst of a nine-month immunosuppression stint—that go to the emergency room for influenza side effects.
    — Eleanor Cummins, Slate Magazine, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Diana spent months receiving chemotherapy, immunosuppression, and dialysis treatments, and about five years on a low-sodium, low-potassium diet.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021
  • This finding may also have implications in immune diseases as well as treatments either resulting in or employing immunosuppression.
    — Jasenka Zubcevic and Christopher Martyniuk, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2017
  • With aging, malnutrition, immunosuppression, and long-term diseases, the immune system loses the ability to adapt to novelty.
    — USA Today, 29 July 2020
  • The city’s Department of Public Health says vaccine trials have shown that those with moderate to severe immunosuppression can benefit from a third dose.
    — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Among all side effects, the researchers found that 10% were considered to be associated with the gene therapy and 24% with the immunosuppression.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 July 2022
  • These patients experience profound immunosuppression and face a heightened risk of serious infection.
    — Jordan Shaked, Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Only certain exceptions will be made if an athlete has a history of allergic reaction to a component of the vaccine or is using any immunosuppression medication.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2022

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