Overview
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Donald L. Ballantyne
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New York University School of Medicine, USA
Microsurgical Research and Training Laboratories Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, New York University Medical Center, New York, USA
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John Marquis Converse
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New York University School of Medicine, USA
Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, New York University Medical Center, New York, USA
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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- Donald L. Ballantyne, John Marquis Converse
Pages 1-47
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- Donald L. Ballantyne, John Marquis Converse
Pages 49-94
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- Donald L. Ballantyne, John Marquis Converse
Pages 95-105
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- Donald L. Ballantyne, John Marquis Converse
Pages 107-122
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- Donald L. Ballantyne, John Marquis Converse
Pages 123-134
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- Donald L. Ballantyne, John Marquis Converse
Pages 135-150
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- Donald L. Ballantyne, John Marquis Converse
Pages 151-165
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Back Matter
Pages 167-192
About this book
The skin allograft has been used as the test tool since the beginning of investiga tions of the fate of skin transplanted between two individuals of ordinary genetic diversity. This monograph is designed to furnish the transplantation work er with a review of the significant papers in which skin allografts and xeno grafts, applied to experimental animals and man, have played a role in acquiring a body of knowledge concerning the behavior and fate of these transplants and the reaction of the body to their presence. Skin, an essential organ for survival, a barrier between the "milieu inte rieur" of Claude Bernard and the "milieu exterieur," will remain the most frequently used transplant in transplantation research. Because it is highly antigenic, the final solution of the problem of acceptance of allografts of various tissues and organs will probably depend upon the achievement of a permanent survival of skin allografts. My personal interest in transplantation, which originated during my surgi cal training, was rekindled when I met Peter Medawar (today Sir Peter) in England during World War II. I had joined, in 1940, an American Volunteer Surgical Unit (The American Hospital in Britain), organized and headed by Dr.
