Major histocompatibility complex restriction and transplantation immunity. A possible solution to the allograft problem.

Studies of the survival of weakly histoincompatible skin grafts in which the Langerhans' cells (LC)5 have been replaced with major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-compatible or incompatible LC, as well as studies of the fate of cultured endocrine allografts in MHC-compatible and incompatible mice and rats, indicate that allografts are only recognized as foreign if they possess donor macrophages (or cells of this family), or if antigen presenting cells MHC-compatible with the graft can be provided by the host.