[Etanercept: recombinant human soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor fusion protein]

Keita Fujikawa1, Atsushi Kawakami, Katsumi Eguchi

  • 1Unit of Translational Medicine, Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University.

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