Thymus in myasthenia gravis. Isolation of T-lymphocyte lines specific for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor from thymuses of myasthenic patients.

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Published in J Clin Invest on March 01, 1988

Authors

A Melms1, B C Schalke, T Kirchner, H K Müller-Hermelink, E Albert, H Wekerle

Author Affiliations

1: Max-Planck-Society, Clinical Research Unit for Multiple Sclerosis, Würzburg, Federal Republic of Germany.

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