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H Ikigai1, T Ono, T Nakae

  • 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Showa University School of Medicine, Hatanodai, Shinagawa, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan. ikigai@chem.suzuka-ct.ac.jp

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
|January 16, 1999
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