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L M Stenberg1, E Nilsson, O Ljungberg

  • 1Department of Clinical Chemistry, Department of Pathology, Lund University, University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|May 1, 2001
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