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Yale Article (Editorial)
Do Natural T Cells Promote Liver Regeneration?
 

I. Nicholas Crispe, M.B., B.S., Ph.D.
Immunobiology Section and Yale Liver Center
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT 

Abbreviations

Abbreviations: TCR, T-cell receptor; NK, natural killer; NK-T, NK-like alpha-beta T cells.

FOOTNOTES

Received February 14, 2000; accepted February 15, 2000.

From the Immunobiology Section and Yale Liver Center, Yale University School of Medicine, 310 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT.

doi:10.1053/he.2000.6707

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