Which of the following immune responses is responsible for the rejection of kidney graft?

Which of the following immune responses is responsible for the rejection of kidney graft?
  1. Auto-immune response
  2. Humoral immune response
  3. Inflammatory immune response
  4. Cell-mediated immune response

Solution

Transplantation of organs between genetically different individuals of the same species causes a T cell-mediated immune response that, if left unchecked, results in rejection and graft destruction.

Asked in: NEET 2019 (All India)

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