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Fujimaki, Wakae; Takahashi, Nozomu; Ohnuma, Kei; Nagatsu, Masayoshi; Kurosawa, Hiromi; Yoshida, Satoko; Dang, Nam H.; Uchiyama, Takehiko; Morimoto, Chikao

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Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 305859, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/305859

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Comparative Study of Regulatory T Cell Function of Human CD25+CD4+ T Cells from Thymocytes, Cord Blood, and Adult Peripheral Blood

Wakae Fujimaki,^1,2,3 Nozomu Takahashi,¹ Kei Ohnuma,¹ Masayoshi Nagatsu,⁴ Hiromi Kurosawa,⁴ Satoko Yoshida,⁵ Nam H. Dang,⁶ Takehiko Uchiyama,² and Chikao Morimoto¹

¹Division of Clinical Immunology, Advanced Clinical Research Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
²Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan
³Human Medical Science Division, Kagawa Nutrition University, Saitama 350-0288, Japan
⁴Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan
⁵Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yoshida Clinic, Saitama 358-0054, Japan
⁶Department of Hematologic Malignancies, Nevada Cancer Institute, Las Vegas, NV 89135, USA

Received 13 February 2008; Revised 16 April 2008; Accepted 20 May 2008

Academic Editor: Yasunobu Yoshikai

Copyright © 2008 Wakae Fujimaki et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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