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Original Articles

Purification and Characterization of a Fibrinolytic Protease from a Culture Supernatant of Flammulina velutipes Mycelia

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Pages 2214-2222 | Received 05 Apr 2007, Accepted 02 Jun 2007, Published online: 22 May 2014

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