Negin Abedinzadeh1, Behnam Pedram2, Yasan Sadeghian3, Seyed Mohamad Hossein Tabatabaei Nodushan3, Maryam Gilasgar3, Mahsa Darvish3, Aram Mokarizadeh4. 1. Graduate, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2. Department of Pathobiology, Susangerd Branch Islamic Azad University, Susangerd, Iran. 3. Graduate, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Tehran, Iran. 4. Cellular & Molecular Research Center, and Department of Immunology, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran. a.mokarizadeh@muk.ac.ir.
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