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Ali Afzal, Zubair Khaliq, Sheraz Ahmad, Faheem Ahmad, Abid Noor, Muhammad Bilal Qadir
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Jennifer M. Castro, Mercedes G. Montalban, Noelia Martinez-Perez, Daniel Domene-Lopez, Juana M. Perez, Francisco M. Arrabal-Campos, Ignacio Fernandez, Ignacio Martin-Gullon, Juan C. Garcia-Quesada
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Carolina T. Torres-Medina, Edwin A. Murillo
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
(2023)
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Edgar Franco, Rosmery Dussan, Diana Paola Navia, Maribel Amu
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Ze Lv, Xiaohan Meng, Shaoyang Sun, Tianzhen Jiang, Shengfu Zhang, Jianguo Feng
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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
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