Quantitative challenges in understanding ligand discrimination by alphabeta T cells
Ofer Feinerman1, Ronald N Germain, Grégoire Altan-Bonnet
1ImmunoDynamics Group, Program in Computational Biology & Immunology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Molecular Immunology
|September 11, 2007
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