Mixed Chimerism and Transplantation Tolerance

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Achieving transplantation tolerance is an important goal in the effort to reduce long-term morbidity and mortality in organ transplant recipients. Robust, lifelong, donor-specific tolerance can be reliably achieved by induction of mixed chimerism in various animal models. To date, the clinical application of these proto-cols has been impeded partly by the potential toxicity of the required host conditioning...

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