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Amyloid
The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
Volume 10, 2003 - Issue 4
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Original Article

Mice transgenic for human TTR have the same frequency of renal TTR deposition whether maintained in conventional or specific pathogen free environments

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Pages 262-266 | Received 12 Jun 2003, Accepted 26 Aug 2003, Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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