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Science 17 November 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5239, p. 1158
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5239.1158
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Perspectives

J. Wayne Streilein

J. W. Streilein discusses the concept of immune privilege, which protects from rejection tissues grafted to certain sites in the body. The differences between immune-privileged sites and immune-privileged tissues are illustrated by two recent papers implicating the cell surface protein FasL in immune privilege in the eye (Science, p. 1189 of this issue) and in the testis [D. Bellgrau et al., Nature 377, 630 (1995)].

The author is in the Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. E-mail: WayneS@vision.eri.harvard.edu

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