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It was most appropriate that a Symposium on Inflammatory Mediators should take place in London, where the first inflammatory mediator — histamine — was born.
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Majno, G. (1985). Inflammatory Mediators: Where are they Going?. In: Higgs, G.A., Williams, T.J. (eds) Inflammatory Mediators. Satellite Symposia of the IUPHAR 9th International Congress of Pharmacology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07834-9_1
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