Interferon lambda: a new sword in cancer immunotherapy.

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Published in Clin Dev Immunol on December 06, 2011

Authors

Ahmed Lasfar1, Walid Abushahba, Murugabaskar Balan, Karine A Cohen-Solal

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, University Hospital Cancer Center, Newark, NJ 07103, USA. lasfarah@gmail.com

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