Lethal Cutaneous Disease in Transgenic Mice Conditionally Expressing Htlv-i Tax*
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LETHAL CUTANEOUS DISEASE IN TRANSGENIC MICE CONDITIONALLY EXPRESSING HTLV-I TAX* Hakju Kwon , Louise Ogle , Bobby Benitez , Jan Bohuslav , Mauricio Montano , Dean W. Felsher§ and Warner C. Greene From the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, CA 94158, the Departments of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-1234 and §Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305 Running Title: Induction of Skin Disease by HTLV-I Tax Address correspondence to: Warner C. Greene, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, California 94158, Tel. 415 734-4805; Fax. 415 355-0153; E-Mail: [email protected]
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