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Regulating rejection with cell therapy

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Regulatory T cells may prevent acute and chronic rejection of organ transplants.

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Figure 1: T cells recognize alloantigen by two pathways.

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  1. Mohamed H. Sayegh and Howard L. Weiner are at the Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital, Boston; Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. hweiner@rics.bwh.harvard.edu,

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Sayegh, M., Weiner, H. Regulating rejection with cell therapy. Nat Biotechnol 26, 191–192 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0208-191

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