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The right stuff: Breaking through the xenotransplant barrier

Nature Medicine volume 2, pages 1185–1186 (1996)Cite this article

Permanent acceptance of a skin xenograft was achieved by induction of tolerance in the recipient (pages 1211–1216).

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