The Jeremiah Metzger Lecture. From POMC to Functional Diversity of Neural Peptides: the Key Importance of Convertases

Overview

Journal Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc

Specialty Rehabilitation Medicine

Date 1990 Jan 1

PMID 1966644

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Authors

M Chretien

L Gasper

S Benjannet

M Mbikay

C Lazure

N G Seidah

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