Heart Allograft Tolerance Induced and Maintained by Vascularized Hind-Limb Transplant in Rats

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Peripheral blood multilineage chimerism in Group 5. Multilineage peripheral blood persisted for 12-13 weeks following vascularized hind-limb transplant, carried out by hind-limb transplant (HLT), at a low level in Group 5. At 13 weeks following vascularized hind-limb transplant, peripheral blood chimerism could hardly be detected by flow cytometry in 5 of 6 tolerant recipients in Group 5.

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