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V A Kordyum1, S P Shpylova, V I Andrienko

  • 1Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 150, Zabolotnogo street, 03143 Kyiv, Ukraine.

Cell Biology International
|March 15, 2005
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