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Evidence for a differential avidity model of T cell selection in the thymus

P G Ashton-Rickardt1, A Bandeira, J R Delaney

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.

Cell
|February 25, 1994
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