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Original Article

Intracellular Localisation of the Ro 52 kD Auto-Antigen in HeLa Cells Visualised with Green Fluorescent Protein Chimeras

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Pages 225-233 | Received 05 Dec 1997, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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