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Failure of combined costimulatory blockade in animal transplant model

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Dharnidharka, V., Schowengerdt, K. & Skoda-Smith, S. Failure of combined costimulatory blockade in animal transplant model. Nat Med 6, 115 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/72166

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