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Nature Medicine  8, 107 - 108 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm0202-107

Stemming the tide of rejection

Scott H. Adler, Steven J. Bensinger & Laurence A. Turka

Department of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
turka@mail.med.upenn.edu

Transplant recipients require chronic administration of drugs that suppress their immune system to prevent rejection of foreign tissues. The finding in rats that grafting embryonic stem-like cells to a transplant recipient can induce tolerance to transplants has important clinical implications. (pages 171−178)

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