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Y Ikeshiro1, Y Tomita

  • 1Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Niigata College of Pharmacy, 5829 Kamishinei-cho, Niigata 950-21, Japan.

Planta Medica
|October 1, 1985
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