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Transplantation
Author(s) -
M. G. McGeown
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
movement disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.352
H-Index - 198
eISSN - 1531-8257
pISSN - 0885-3185
DOI - 10.1002/mds.870090722
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , transplantation , citation , computer science , psychology , information retrieval , library science , medicine , world wide web , surgery
I interpret my title as meaning organ transplantation. Corneal and skin grafts differ from organ grafts in that they are not vascularised; in the former, immuno suppression is not needed to prevent rejection, while skin is very rapidly rejected unless transplanted as an autograft or between identical twins. Grafts are classified as: autograft, when the transplant is from the same individual, as is usually the situation in skin grafts; isograft, when the donor and recipient are of the same species and have identical genotypes in other words, inbred litter mates or identical twins; allograft, when the donor and recipient are of the same species but their genotypes are different this is the usual situation in human