“…Since then the mixed leucocyte culture (MLC) has been used extensively as a tool to assay cellular immune reactions. Experiments in rats [11,31,36], mice [1,10] and man [2,4,6,15,33] have been generally accepted as proof that major differences in histocompatibility antigens are the crucial factor giving rise to the lymphocyte transformation in MLC. Reports that solubilized histocompatibility antigens could also induce lymphocyte transformation further strengthened this view [37].…”