Thrombin-like enzymes in snake venoms

Toxins and Hemostasis: From Bench to Bedside

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 519-557

  Mackessy, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

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