Scorpion Toxin Polyptides as Therapeutic Agents: An Overview.

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  2016

• Venue

  Protein Peptide Letters

• Publication date

  2016-08-31

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.2174/0929866523666160630184635PMID 27397476
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