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Transplantation of Tail Skin to Study Allogeneic CD4 T Cell Responses in Mice
Published on: July 25, 2014
Selective inhibition of IL-2 mRNA blocks allograft rejection by limiting T cell clonal expansion
1Division of Immunology and Organ Transplant, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA.
Transplantation Proceedings
|March 27, 2001
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