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During the infancy days of cardiac transplantation, nonhuman primate hearts were transplanted into humans to save lives. This type of transplantation is best described by which one of the following?

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Xenograft: transplant from one species to another species
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Transplantation from one region of a person to another region of that same person is an autograft and has the best chance of succeeding. When a transplant is done between monozygotic twins, it is an isograft and has a complete MHC compatibility and a good chance of success. Allografts are between members of the same species, and xenografts are between members of different species. Both of these transplants have a high rate of rejection unless immunosuppression accompanies the transplant.
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