Davies AJS. Immigration control in the vertebrate body with special reference to chimerism.
CHIMERISM 2013;
3:1-8. [PMID:
22690266 PMCID:
PMC3370924 DOI:
10.4161/chim.20113]
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Abstract
The phenomenon of chimerism is reviewed against an understanding of adaptive immunity in vertebrates. It is shown that chimerism can be regarded as a ubiquitous condition and this suggests that monophylesis has played little part in evolution. It is suggested that the adaptive immune response has a special role in facilitating the development of chimerism and that the consensus view of adaptive immunity as a rejection mechanism should be revised.
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