Thymosin alpha1: isolation and sequence analysis of an immunologically active thymic polypeptide.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on February 01, 1977

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A L Goldstein, T L Low, M McAdoo, J McClure, G B Thurman, J Rossio, C Y Lai, D Chang, S S Wang, C Harvey, A H Ramel, J Meienhofer

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