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In a mouse skin transplant model in which donor and recipient mice differ by only one minor histocompatibility antigen, graft tolerance can be induced up to ten days after transplantation, but endures only if there is persistence of migratory antigen (pages 1015-1019).
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Starzl, T. The art of tolerance. Nat Med 4, 1006–1008 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/1993
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