What Can We Learn from the Immune Response to Human Factor VIII in a Mouse Model of Hemophilia A?

B.M. Reipert; H.P. Schwarz

doi:10.1055/s-0037-1613223

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 2002; 88(02): 374-375
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1613223

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What Can We Learn from the Immune Response to Human Factor VIII in a Mouse Model of Hemophilia A?

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B.M. Reipert

¹Baxter BioScience, Vienna, Austria
H.P. Schwarz

¹Baxter BioScience, Vienna, Austria

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