THROMBOSIS AND HEMOSTASIS Coagulation, an ancestral serine protease cascade, exerts a novel function in early immune defense
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1Department of Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; 2Center for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden; 3Department of Preclinical Research and Development, CSL Behring GmbH, Marburg, Germany; and 4Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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