The adoptive transfer of pregnancy-induced unresponsiveness to male skin grafts with thymus-dependent cells.
Authors:
- R N SmithRSR N Smith
- A E PowellAPA E Powell
Open Access
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 146 (3) , 899-904
Abstract
A majority of C57BL/10Sn females pregnant six or more times by syngeneic males do not reject male skin grafts. The pregnancy induced tolerance of male skin grafts was transferred adoptively to virgin recipients by thymus-dependent cells from multiparous tolerant donors.Keywords
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