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. 1994 Mar 1;91(5):1599–1600. doi: 10.1073/pnas.91.5.1599

An idiotope--anti-idiotope complex and the structural basis of molecular mimicking.

R J Poljak 1
PMCID: PMC43209  PMID: 7510402

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