Snake venoms phospholipases A2;Les phospholipases A2 des venins de serpents

Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 149-168

  Faure, Grazyna ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

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