A Bone Marrow Transplant May Not Be Appropriate from a Given

question 66

Multiple Choice

A bone marrow transplant may not be appropriate from a given donor (Jane) to a given recipient (Jane's cousin Bob) , even though Jane has previously given blood for one of Bob's needed transfusions, because

• A) even though Jane's blood type is a match to Bob's, her MHC proteins may not be a match.
• B) a blood type match is less stringent than a match required for transplant because blood is more tolerant of change.
• C) for each gene, there is only one blood allele but many tissue alleles.
• D) Jane's class II genes are not expressed in bone marrow.
• E) Bob's immune response has been made inadequate before he receives the transplant.

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