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Differential thymic selection outcomes stimulated by focal structural alteration in peptide/major histocompatibility

Y Ghendler1, M K Teng, J H Liu

  • 1Laboratory of Immunobiology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|August 26, 1998
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