Direct reprogramming of terminally differentiated B cells into erythroid lineage

Ken Sadahira1, Yumi Fukuchi, Hiroyoshi Kunimono

  • 1Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.

FEBS Letters
|September 13, 2012
PubMed

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