title: [The study in immunology after skin transplantation].
abstract: Skin grafting has been one of the most important approaches for covering burn wounds, however long-term survival of allogeneic or xenogeneic skin graft is currently not successful. How to induce immune tolerance for life-time survival of allogeneic or xenogeneic skin graft is still remote objective to be solved. However, clinicians and scientists in China have worked very hard and made great contribution to this field during the past 50 years, no matter how difficult it is. They are the respected pioneers in the understanding of immunological change in "Chinese Method" skin grafting, its local immune tolerance, immunology of pre-treatment of skin graft, etc. Herein, the most outstanding and impressive progresses in immunological responses after skin grafting in the past 50 years in China have been reviewed and presented for memory, for future and for extending a salute.
authors.affiliation: Insititute of Burn Research, Southwest Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Xi-hua
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zheng-gen
authors.initials: ZG
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000276:immunology*; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous / Q000276:immunology; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000276:immunology