Tolerance can be infectious.
Studies focused on the goal of eliciting transplant tolerance led Herman Waldmann to rejuvenate discarded ideas of 'suppressor T cells'. Such cells are now known to exist.
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Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK. herman.waldmann@path.ox.ac.uk
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