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Sublytic membrane-attack-complex activation and VEGF secretion in retinal pigment epithelial cells
Kannan Kunchithapautham1, Mausumi Bandyopadhyay, Mohammad Dahrouj
1Department of Neurosciences, Division of Research, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
|December 21, 2011
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