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Transplantation tolerance: memories that haunt us

Mandy L Ford1, Christian P Larsen

  • 1Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

Science Translational Medicine
|June 10, 2011
PubMed
Summary

Transplant tolerance is achievable in mice but not primates. A high frequency of graft-reactive memory T cells may prevent tolerance induction in primates, leading to rejection.

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