Treatment of hypercholesterolemia by transplantation of xenogeneic hepatocytes presents new challenges and opportunities to immunologists (pages 48–53).
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Platt, J. Xenotransplanting hepatocytes: The triumph of a cup half full. Nat Med 3, 26–27 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0197-26
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