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Peptide-based Identification of Functional Motifs and their Binding Partners
Published on: June 30, 2013
Peptides derived from salivary thrombospondin-1 replicate its anti-HIV effect: potential role in microbicide
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
|June 19, 2001
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