Medawar's legacy to cellular immunology and clinical transplantation: a commentary on Billingham, Brent and Medawar (1956) 'Quantitative studies on tissue transplantation immunity. III. Actively acquired tolerance'.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on April 19, 2015

Authors

Elizabeth Simpson1

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1: Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Imperial College, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK elizabeth.simpson@csc.mrc.ac.uk.

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