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THE RESISTANCE OF THE END-PIECE AND MID-PIECE OF COMPLEMENT INACTIVATED BY DISTILLED WATER
1Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York.
The Journal of Experimental Medicine
|October 30, 2009
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