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Inhibition of Fetal Thymic Caspases Abrogates the Consequences of Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency

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Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism in Man X

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  1. University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

    C. van de Justin Wiele & Linda F. Thompson

  2. Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

    C. van de Justin Wiele, Scott W. Hooker, Aletha B. Laurent & James G. Vaughn

  3. University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA

    Michael R. Blackburn & Rodney E. Kellems

  4. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Michael S. Hershfield

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van de Justin Wiele, C. et al. (2002). Inhibition of Fetal Thymic Caspases Abrogates the Consequences of Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency. In: Zoref-Shani, E., Sperling, O. (eds) Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism in Man X. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 486. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46843-3_12

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