Medical Hypotheses
Volume 44, Issue 1 , Pages 32-38 , January 1995

Synthetic inducible biological response amplifiers (SIBRAs): Rational peptides at the crossroads Between molecular evolution and structure-based drug design

Received 24 March 1994 ,Accepted 18 July 1994.

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