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Thyroglobulin-specific T cell line from a healthy individual does not produce proinflammatory cytokines on antigenic

N Shimojo1, T Katsuki, K Saito

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Chiba University School of Medicine, Japan.

Autoimmunity
|January 1, 1994
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