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Isolation and Chemical Characterization of Lipid A from Gram-negative Bacteria
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Isolation and Chemical Characterization of Lipid A from Gram-negative Bacteria

Published on: September 17, 2013

Glia cell response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide: effect on nucleotide synthesis, its genetic control and

A Fontana, R Bosshard, C Dahinden

    Journal of Neuroimmunology
    |September 1, 1981
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    glia cell responselipopolysaccharide effectsnucleotide synthesislipid A activity

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