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The use of monoclonal antibodies in autoimmunity treatment

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1 Group of structural Organization of T-cell Immunity, Department of Adaptive Immunity Genomics, Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow

2 Department of Molecular Technologies, Institute of Translational Medicine, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow

Correspondence should be addressed: Ekaterina M. Merzlyak
Miklouho-Maclay 16/10, Moscow, 117997; ur.liam@99niretake

About paper

Funding: this work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (ID RFMEFI60716X0158).

Received: 2018-12-06 Accepted: 2018-12-27 Published online: 2019-01-01
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