2004
Disease‐related epitope spread in a humanized T cell receptor transgenic model of multiple sclerosis
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1992
Experimental Approaches to Specific Immunotherapy in Multiple Sclerosis
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1990
Shared Human T Cell Receptor Vβ Usage to Immunodominant Regions of Myelin Basic Protein
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