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L Robert1, M P Jacob, T Fülöp

  • 1Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Equipe de Biochimie du Tissu Conjonctif, Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot, France.

Ciba Foundation Symposium
|January 1, 1995
PubMed

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