Experimental Hematology
Volume 37, Issue 12 , Pages 1387-1392 , December 2009

Inducible transgenes under the control of the hCD68 promoter identifies mouse macrophages with a distribution that differs from the F4/80 - and CSF-1R–expressing populations

Received 18 February 2009 ,Revised 26 August 2009 ,Accepted 16 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.exphem.2009.09.003

Experimental Hematology
Volume 37, Issue 12 , Pages 1387-1392 , December 2009

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