Experimental Hematology
Volume 37, Issue 8 , Pages 947-955 , August 2009

Patients with myelodysplastic syndromes display several T-cell expansions, which are mostly polyclonal in the CD4+ subset and oligoclonal in the CD8+ subset

Received 16 January 2009 ,Revised 10 April 2009 ,Accepted 22 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.exphem.2009.04.009

Experimental Hematology
Volume 37, Issue 8 , Pages 947-955 , August 2009

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