Journal of Dental Research, Vol 58, 451-460, Copyright © 1979 by International & American Associations for Dental Research Online Journals
Tooth allografts fail to stimulate immunologic memory in mice
L. J. Moore
Tooth transplants should not preclude future transplants in the recipient.
In this study teeth failed to stimulate immunologic memory in weakly
disparate mice. The teeth did carry transplantation antigens and were
rejected after second-set skin grafts. The teeth probably enhanced their
own survival through some immunoregulatory mechanism.