Heterogeneity of rat encephalitogenic T cells elicited by variants of the myelin basic protein (68–86) peptide
✍ Scribed by Deming Sun; Christopher Coleclough; Xian-Zhen Hu
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 796 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-2980
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