Overcoming T cell exhaustion in infection and cancer

Trends in Immunology - Tập 36 Số 4 - Trang 265-276 - 2015
Kristen E. Pauken1, E. John Wherry1
1Institute for Immunology and Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 421 Curie Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

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