Lymphocytes: not useless after all
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چکیده
Half a century ago, an immunologist named N. Avrion Mitchison showed that lymphocytes--then thought to be useless--triggered tumor rejection in mice.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of Experimental Medicine
دوره 203 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006