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Are there organ transplants can be rejected by the body if the donor tissue is too different from the host. can bone transplants be rejected too?
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Bone is different: In vascularized organ higher the differences in human leukocyte antigen between recipient and the donor greater the chances of having rejection....bone is not vascularized organ....acts differently
Answered 6/10/2015
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