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Antigens Protected Functional Red Blood Cells By The Membrane Grafting Of Compact Hyperbranched Polyglycerols
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Red cell exchange in the pregnancy complicated by a major hemoglobinopathy

M M Keeling, J P Lavery, A U Clemons

    American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    |September 15, 1980
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