The spleen? Who needs it anyway?

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• Publication year

  1992

• Venue

  Clinical and Experimental Immunology

• Publication date

  1992-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/J.1365-2249.1992.TB06956.XPMID 1516251PMCID PMC1554457
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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