Platelet Multimerin and Its Proteolytic Processing

C. P. M. Hayward

doi:10.1055/s-0037-1614921

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 1999; 82(06): 1779-1780
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1614921

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Platelet Multimerin and Its Proteolytic Processing

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C. P. M. Hayward

¹From the Departments of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, and Medicine, McMaster University, the Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, and the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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