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Chemotherapeutic activity of synthetic antimicrobial peptides: correlation between chemotherapeutic activity and

Y Nakajima1, J Alvarez-Bravo, J Cho

  • 1Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.

FEBS Letters
|November 5, 1997
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