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How does a thymus transplantation work? Why doesn't it result in rejection of the recipient's... everything?
In the original New England Journal of Medicine paper (Markert et al 1999. PMID 10523153), the authors demonstrate that following transplantation, the donor thymus contains recipient T-cells.
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