Anticoagulants from scorpion venoms

Toxins and Hemostasis: From Bench to Bedside

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 255-266

  Valdez Cruz, N A ^a   Conde, R ^a   Zamudio, F Z ^a   Possani, L D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9295-3_16     Document Type: Chapter

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