Human macrophages convert l-tryptophan into the neurotoxin quinolinic acid
- 1 May 1992
- journal article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 283 (3), 633-635
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj2830633
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