Novel anti-HIV peptides containing multiple copies of artificially designed heptad repeat motifs
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عنوان ژورنال: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0006-291X
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.07.134