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LI, Li-Fan ; Lind, Evan F. ; Gondek, David C. ; Bennett, Kathy A. ; Gleeson, Michael W. ; et. al. Mast cells are essential intermediaries in regulatory T-cell tolerance. In: Nature : international weekly journal of science, Vol. 442, no. 7106, p. 997-1002 (2006)