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Compared the behavior and fate of rabbit skin autografts and homografts and reported evidence consistent with an active immune basis for homograft rejection.
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The record is Medawar's sole-author 1944 rabbit study. It is animal evidence, not a clinical transplantation trial, and it does not absorb the adjacent human work with Thomas Gibson or later acquired-tolerance experiments.
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Peter B. Medawar
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Medawar: skin autografts and homografts in rabbits
Compared the behavior and fate of rabbit skin autografts and homografts and reported evidence consistent with an active immune basis for homograft rejection.
Scientific scope
The record is Medawar's sole-author 1944 rabbit study. It is animal evidence, not a clinical transplantation trial, and it does not absorb the adjacent human work with Thomas Gibson or later acquired-tolerance experiments.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Peter B. Medawar
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.