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Review

Patent landscape highlighting therapeutic implications of peptides targeting myristoylated alanine-rich protein kinase-C substrate (MARCKS)

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Pages 445-454 | Received 31 Mar 2023, Accepted 19 Jul 2023, Published online: 01 Aug 2023

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