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Sammer Yousuf1, M Iqbal Choudhary, Atta Ur Rahman

  • 1International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|January 15, 2010
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