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A Jakubiec-Puka1, I Ciechomska, J Morga

  • 1Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland.

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part B, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
|June 22, 1999
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