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In vitro Synthesis of Native, Fibrous Long Spacing and Segmental Long Spacing Collagen
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Differences in the microfibrillar arrangement of collagen fibrils. Distribution and possible significance

E Reale, F Benazzo, A Ruggeri

    Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology
    |April 1, 1981
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