title: The biology of acute transplant rejection.
abstract: An intriguing and increasingly understood facet of immune responses is the ability of a recipient to destroy a foreign tissue or organ graft. The phenomenon of acute rejection of an allograft involves a series of complex and inter-related cellular and humoral events, culminating in graft death. Some of the current thinking surrounding this phenomenon is reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Research Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: N L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Tilney
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Kupiec-Weglinski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation / Q000502:physiology; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007111:Immunity, Cellular / Q000502:physiology; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000276:immunology*