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John M Halket1, Vladimir G Zaikin

  • 1Drug Control Centre, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK. john.halket@kcl.ac.uk

European Journal of Mass Spectrometry (Chichester, England)
|June 11, 2005
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