YKL-40, a mammalian member of the chitinase family, is a matrix protein of specific granules in human neutrophils.

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Association of American Physicians

• Publication date

  1998-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  PMID 9686683
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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