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Transforming growth factor-beta in a model of IgA switching

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D.Y.K. is funded by an Alberta Heritage Clinical Investigatorship and the work is funded by the Medical Research Council of Canada.

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Kunimoto, D.Y. Transforming growth factor-beta in a model of IgA switching. Immunol Res 10, 400–403 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02919730

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