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Polak, J.M., Bloom, S.R. (1989). Introduction. In: Polak, J.M. (eds) Regulatory Peptides. Experientia Supplementum, vol 56. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9136-3_1
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