Immunology: Why the baby isn't thrown out

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-44

  Simpson, Elizabeth ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; DOWN REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DOWN-REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL;

EID: 0029681892     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00418-9     Document Type: Article

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