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. 1984 Sep;25(9):913–918. doi: 10.1136/gut.25.9.913

Coeliac syndrome: biochemical mechanisms and the missing peptidase hypothesis revisted.

T J Peters, I Bjarnason
PMCID: PMC1432474  PMID: 6381245

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