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Cortical and medullary phenotypes within a mouse thymic epithelial cell line

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  1. Department of Immunology, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Elizabeth O. Cirne-Lima & Wilson Savino

  2. Department of Immunology, Erasmus University, Rotherdam, The Netherlands

    Willem van Ewijk

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Cirne-Lima, E.O., van Ewijk, W. & Savino, W. Cortical and medullary phenotypes within a mouse thymic epithelial cell line. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol - Animal 29, 443–445 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02639375

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