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Recognition by class II alloreactive T cells of processed determinants from human serum proteins

P Panina-Bordignon1, G Corradin, E Roosnek

  • 1Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 14, 1991
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