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Developmental plasticity of lymphoid progenitors

Susan S Prohaska1, David C Scherer, Irving L Weissman

  • 1Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Seminars in Immunology
|November 30, 2002
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