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Xenografts, cloning and the immune system

Nature Medicine volume 3, pages 951–952 (1997)Cite this article

Cloned, cultured bovine adrenocortical cells are shown to engraft and form functional adrenocortical tissue in immunodeficient mice (pages 978–983).

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