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Supported in part by Grant No. CA 29242 from the National Cancer Institute.
S.D.W. is a Scholar of the Leukemia Society of America.
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Waksal, S.D., Colucci, G. Role of growth factors during normal and neoplastic intrathymic development. Surv. immunol. Res. 3, 25–28 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02918593
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