Penetrating keratoplasty to one eye abolishes immune privilege and promotes corneal allograft rejection in the opposite eye, even to grafts from unrelated donors

Jérry Y. Niederkorn, Jessamee Mellon(Southwestern Medical Center), Kathryn Paunicka(The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
June 16, 2013
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