Cystatin: A novel bioactive protein

Nutraceutical Proteins and Peptides in Health and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 243-266

  Nakamura, Soichiro ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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