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Mucosal immunity and inflammation. I. Mucosal dendritic cells: their specialized role in initiating T cell responses

A Iwasaki1, B L Kelsall

  • 1Mucosal Immunity Section, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1890, USA.

The American Journal of Physiology
|May 18, 1999
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