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Cyclosporin A — A new outlook for immunosuppression in clinical transplantation

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Tutschka, P.J. Cyclosporin A — A new outlook for immunosuppression in clinical transplantation. Blut 39, 81–87 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01008083

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