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Original Article

Humoral immune response against the S-antigen/TNFα common epitope in rat EAU suppressed by the monoclonal antibody S2D2

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Pages 119-127 | Received 02 Jan 1992, Accepted 26 May 1992, Published online: 02 Jul 2009

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