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. 1991;102:195–224.

The Jeremiah Metzger Lecture. From POMC to functional diversity of neural peptides: the key importance of convertases.

M Chretien 1, L Gasper 1, S Benjannet 1, M Mbikay 1, C Lazure 1, N G Seidah 1
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