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Use of the technique of acquired tolerance suggests that epidermal cells contain distinctive transplantation allo-antigens—antigens not also possessed by marrow and lymphoid cells.
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BOYSE, E., LANCE, E., CARSWELL, E. et al. Rejection of Skin Allografts by Radiation Chimaeras: Selective Gene Action in the Specification of Cell Surface Structure. Nature 227, 901–903 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227901a0
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