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With a rapid advance of surgical instruments and modern healthcare quality, today clinical transplant surgeries are frequently and successfully performed over the past few decades. Nevertheless, microsurgical techniques are still required particularly for medical students and clinical surgical residencies. A microsurgery laboratory is suggested to provide a platform to set up a formal training program (Kizilisik et al. 1998), in which many clinical scenarios can be mimicked. More importantly, clinically relevant transplant models may be established in large measures to allow us to decipher underlying mechanisms of immunologic (innate, adaptive immunities, and signaling pathways) or nonimmunologic factors (effect of body weight, gender, ischemia-reperfusion, hypertension, and drug toxicity) although limitations of animal model exist in practice.

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Gong, W. (2015). Rodent Transplantation Medicine. In: Gong, W. (eds) Rodent Transplant Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9472-5_1

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