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Tenets of transplantation immunology

  1. Graft rejection is donor-specific
  2. Rejection possesses memory and responds to a second graft in an accelerated manner
  3. First set rejection is cell mediated
  4. Second set rejection is largely antibody mediated
  5. Rejection is directed against specific proteins termed antigens



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