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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Surg. 2002 Nov;195(5):587–610. doi: 10.1016/s1072-7515(02)01498-9

Figure 40.

Figure 40

Clonal exhaustion-deletion, the seminal mechanism of organ engraftment, and of acquired tolerance. Persistence of some donor cells is a prerequisite for maintenance of the variable deletional tolerance induced by the initial surge of donor cells.