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Transforming lymph nodes into tissue factories

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Transplanting donor cells into lymph nodes regenerates liver, pancreas and thymus function in mice.

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Figure 1: Generation of ectopic liver, pancreatic islets and thymus by lymph node transplantation.

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  1. Johannes L. Zakrzewski, Andrea Z. Tuckett and Marcel R. M. van den Brink are at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.,

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