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Cellular Therapy of Autoimmune Disease

Alan Tyndall, MD  |  Issue: November 2008  |  

Dr. Tyndall is professor and head of the department of rheumatology at the University of Basel, Felix Platter Hospital, in Basel, Switzerland.

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