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. 1994 Aug;97(Suppl 2):11–14. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1994.tb06256.x

Clusterin: modulation of complement function.

J Tschopp 1, L E French 1
PMCID: PMC1550357  PMID: 8070141

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