移植における免疫抑制戦略
M D Denton1, C C Magee, M H Sayegh
1Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Lancet (London, England)
|April 13, 1999
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