NK cell receptors: Of missing sugar and missing self

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages

  Parham, Peter ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034624847     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00350-X     Document Type: Review

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