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Original Article

Isolation and Structural and Genetic Analysis of the Mouse Enkephalin Gene and its d(AC/TG)n Repeats

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Pages 217-226 | Received 05 Jul 1997, Accepted 24 Feb 1998, Published online: 11 Jul 2009

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