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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Transplant. 2008 Nov 12;13(1):25–34. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2008.01042.x

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Two mechanisms for allorecognition. Direct allorecognition involves recognition of foreign HLA with a variety of potential peptides present in the antigen-presentation groove. In contrast, indirect allorecognition involves recognition of specific foreign HLA sequences as peptides in the context of self-HLA. APC, antigen presenting cell.