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Thymic transplantation in miniature swine: III. induction of tolerance by transplantation of composite thymokidneys across fully major histocompatibility complex-mismatched barriers

Kazuhiko Yamada, Parsia A. Vagefi, Ryu Utsugi, Hiroshi Kitamura, Rolf N. Barth, John C. LaMattina, David H. Sachs

Transplantation · 2003 · 61 citations · 25 references

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Abstract

To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration that functional vascularized thymic grafts can induce transplantation tolerance across fully MHC-mismatched barriers in a large animal model.

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