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Evaluation of some newer matrix metalloproteinases

G Murphy1, V Knäuper, S Cowell

  • 1School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. g.murphy@uea.ac.uk

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|July 23, 1999
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