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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Concept information

  1. Research, Technology, Methods
  2. biological resistance
  3. immunity
  4. adaptive immunity
  5. cell-mediated immunity
  6. graft versus host reactions
  1. Fields of Study
  2. immunology
  3. immunity
  4. adaptive immunity
  5. cell-mediated immunity
  6. graft versus host reactions
  1. Research, Technology, Methods
  2. biological properties and phenomena
  3. biological resistance
  4. immunity
  5. immune response
  6. graft versus host reactions
  1. Fields of Study
  2. immunology
  3. immunity
  4. immune response
  5. graft versus host reactions

Preferred term

graft versus host reactions

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information An immunological attack mounted by a graft against the host because of tissue incompatibility when immunologically competent cells are transplanted to an immunologically incompetent host; the resulting clinical picture is that of graft versus host disease.

    Source: Medical Subject Headings

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Related concepts

Scope note

  • For the immunological attack mounted by a graft towards a host; For the immune response of the host to an incompatible graft USE graft rejection; For graft compability/incompability in plants USE graft compatibility.

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/23447

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