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Mayer, A.M.S., Krotz, L., Bonfil, R.D. et al. Biological activity in Macrocystis pyrifera from Argentina: sodium alginate, fucoidan and laminaran. I. Antitumor, cytotoxicity and humoral immune response. Hydrobiologia 151, 483–489 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00046171
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