The Mystique of Organ Transplantation
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The ability to replace faulty body parts with transplanted cells, tissues, and organs has forever altered the principles guiding the practice of medicine. I will first describe how basic science played an essential role in this revolution. But my second objective will be to show how surgeons successfully violated the preexisting rules of immunology and biology, thereby endowing transplantation ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Surgeons
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1072-7515
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2005.03.023