Snake Venom Fibrinogenolytic and Fibrinolytic Enzymes: An Updated Inventory

Francis S. Markland Jr.

doi:10.1055/s-0037-1614964

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 1998; 79(03): 668-674
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1614964

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Snake Venom Fibrinogenolytic and Fibrinolytic Enzymes: An Updated Inventory

On behalf of the Registry of Exogenous Hemostatic Factors of the Scientific and Standardization Committee of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Francis S. Markland Jr.

¹University of Southern California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

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