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Introduction: Tolerance refers to the specific immunological non-reactivity to an antigen resulting from a previous exposure to the same antigen. While the most important form of tolerance is non-reactivity to self antigens, it is possible to induce tolerance to non-self antigens. When an antigen induces tolerance, it is termed tolerogen. * Need for tissue and organ graft drove the curiosity to understand the mechanisms of tolerance. The observations a zoologist, Owens, that Dizygotic bovine twins could accept grafts from each other but their siblings from other pregnancies could not tolerate such grafts led Medawar to perform a series of experiments to induce tolerance in mice. * He and his collaborators Brent and Billingham under the hypothesis that early exposure to foreign antigens might facilitate tolerance induction performed this experiment. * The exact mechanism of induction and maintenance of tolerance is not fully understood. Experimental data, however, point to several possibilities. Clonal deletion: Functionally immature cells of a clone encountering antigen undergo a programmed cell death. For example, auto-reactive T-cell are eliminated in the thymus following interaction with self antigen during their differentiation (negative selection). Clonal deletion has been shown to occur also in the periphery. B cells expressing only IgM (no IgD) on their surface when exposed to antigen are eliminated. * Clonal deletion: Functionally immature cells of a clone encountering antigen undergo a programmed cell death. For example, auto-reactive T-cell are eliminated in the thymus following interaction with self antigen during their differentiation (negative selection). Clonal deletion has been shown to occur also in the periphery. B cells expressing only IgM (no IgD) on their surface when exposed to antigen are eliminated. * Clonal deletion: Functionally immature cells of a clone encountering antigen undergo a programmed cell death. For example, aut