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Simple and Fast Rolling Circle Amplification-Based Detection of Topoisomerase 1 Activity in Crude Biological Samples
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A spectrophotometric study of the pH-dependent and DNA binding properties of topotecan
1Department of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|February 24, 2001
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