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Why do normal t cells, which recognize foreign peptide antigens bound to self mhc molecules, react strongly against the allogeneic mhc molecules of a graft?
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Why do normal t cells, which recognize foreign peptide antigens bound to self mhc molecules, react strongly against the allogeneic mhc molecules of a graft?
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T cells are associated with blood cells fighting infection. Allogenic mhc molecules are immonologically incompactible cell surface proteins essential for aquired immune system. The t celss react strongly against such mhc molecules of a graft because they resemble self MHC plus a foreing peptide.
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