Published in Curr Protein Pept Sci on February 01, 2005
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Unconventional biological threats and the molecular biological response to biological threats. Am J Med Sci (2002) 0.75
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Introducing Ilene K. Gipson, the 2007 recipient of the Friedenwald award. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2007) 0.75