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In situ Imaging of the Mouse Thymus Using 2-Photon Microscopy
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Published on: January 25, 2008

Evidence for the extranuclear localization of thymosins in thymus

O E Tsitsiloni1, P P Yialouris, H Echner

  • 1Department of Biology, University of Athens, Greece.

Experientia
|April 15, 1992
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