Therapeutic CD154 antibody for lupus: promise for the future?

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Published in J Clin Invest on November 01, 2003

Authors

Garnett Kelsoe1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Immunology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. ghkelsoe@duke.edu

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