How to Use immunosuppressive in a Sentence

immunosuppressive

adjective
  • There are even some transplant patients walking around who no longer take any immunosuppressive drugs, or who take them once a month.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • That means patients must take an array of immunosuppressive drugs, which have side effects and can shorten lives.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Back then, the main tool available to these doctors were primitive immunosuppressive drugs.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
  • One of the best ways to control feline leukemia and feline immunosuppressive virus in community cats is to spay and neuter them.
    — Rashad Williams, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • If the parents want another child, the uterus is left in place and the mom continues taking immunosuppressive drugs.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 July 2023
  • Standard immunosuppressive drugs were then given for the remaining three days.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2022
  • As expected, the immunosuppressive therapy made her hair fall out.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Another unknown is whether pausing immunosuppressive drugs in people who are able to do so may help with a vaccine response in these cases.
    — Tara C. Smith, SELF, 27 Aug. 2021
  • But immunosuppressive therapies or diseases sometimes rouse the virus from its slumber.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Others believe such patients may not be able to comply with post-transplant requirements, such as taking immunosuppressive drugs.
    — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Receptors for testosterone are found on the surface of B and T cells, and the hormone is largely immunosuppressive.
    — Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In all, abou t a third of patients went into remission, rates similar to those seen with immunosuppressive medications.
    — Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Does meat or blood have some sort of immunosuppressive factors that allow for HPV-7 to blossom on butchers' hands?
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2011
  • Finally, doctors were able to shorten the time between surgery and embryo-transfer, so the recipients are on immunosuppressive drugs for less time.
    — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Others, such as those who are on immunosuppressive treatment due to another condition, might make fewer antibodies and for only a short time.
    — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2020
  • But in most of the body, they get eliminated by the immune system—except in the core of the tumor because the tumor is an immunosuppressive environment.
    — Sarah Vitak, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Doctors treated him with immunosuppressive drugs and a blood-filtering procedure called plasma exchange.
    — Humberto Basilio, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers prescribed patients an eight-week course of immunosuppressive eyedrops to lower the risk, which is less than the amount given to people who receive cornea transplants from human tissue.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • As a transplant recipient, the 43-year-old oil and gas worker will forever be on immunosuppressive drugs to prevent his body from rejecting the lungs.
    — David Heath, USA TODAY, 30 June 2021
  • So, an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive drug like dexamethasone seems to only come in handy when cytokines start going rogue.
    — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020
  • The authors of the report believe that androgens (male hormones) are linked to the coronavirus infection and immunosuppressive effects.
    — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Kirk attributed the change to genetic engineering and to better immunosuppressive drugs.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Because the brain has ordered the macrophages to create an immunosuppressive shield, the T cells lose their energy, stop multiplying and fail to recognize the cancer as a threat.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The men also received immunosuppressive drugs, such as glucocorticoids and tacrolimus, to keep their immune systems from rejecting the therapy.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 July 2022
  • Menachery received a transplant three months ago, and has been taking immunosuppressive medications since—a major shift to his risk status, and his outlook on reinfection writ large.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 27 May 2022
  • Although the conditions can be managed, usually with immunosuppressive drugs, scientists have never figured out a way to permanently jolt the immune system back on track.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The mom-to-be is given immunosuppressive medications after the transplant and throughout the pregnancy to prevent transplant rejection.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 July 2023
  • Many face some level of transplant rejection, and all must take powerful immunosuppressive medications afterward.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022
  • People who take immunosuppressive medications, such as high-dose steroids and common autoimmune disease treatments, may also be eligible.
    — Patrick Jackson, The Conversation, 29 Mar. 2022
  • This part of the work, Montgomery explained, would help doctors better understand what immunosuppressive medications would work best in other people who receive pig organs.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025

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