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. 2019 Sep;10(9):e00076.
doi: 10.14309/ctg.0000000000000076.

IgG4-Related Disease: A Growing Appreciation of Follicular Helper T Cell Expansion

Mitsuhiro Akiyama  1 , Katsuya Suzuki  1 , Yuko Kaneko  1 , Tsutomu Takeuchi  1
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IgG4-Related Disease: A Growing Appreciation of Follicular Helper T Cell Expansion

Mitsuhiro Akiyama et al. Clin Transl Gastroenterol. 2019 Sep.
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