Transplantation of tissues/organs to save certain patients often fails due to rejection of such tissues/organs by the patient. Which type of immune response is responsible for such rejections?

Options

A. Auto immune response
B. Humoral immune response
C. Physiological immune response
D. Cell-mediated immune response

Answer

D

Explanation

The immune response to a transplanted organ consists of cellular mediated immune response in which the immune system recognize the proteins in the transplanted organs as foreign and mount immune response.