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Cell migration and the control of post-natal T-cell lymphopoiesis in the thymus
1Laboratory of Developmental Immunology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York 10021, USA. petrieh@mskcc.org
Nature Reviews. Immunology
|December 12, 2003
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