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Antigens Protected Functional Red Blood Cells By The Membrane Grafting Of Compact Hyperbranched Polyglycerols
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[Erythrocyte membrane proteins in patients with hereditary spherocytosis]

S F Zakharov, P S Gromov, M V Shcheglova

    Gematologiia I Transfuziologiia
    |November 1, 1992
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