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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Surg. 1995 Mar;180(3):332–336.

FIG. 2.

FIG. 2

Bidirectional mechanism of whole organ graft acceptance involving a graft-versus-host (GVH) reaction by the bone marrow-derived donor leukocytes in the graft that are pitted against the whole recipient immunologic apparatus (host-versus-graft [HVG], rejection). For conventional whole organ clinical transplantation, the recipient is not preconditioned.