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Tetsuya Tsuda1, Noriko Nemoto, Koshi Kawakami

  • 1Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. ttsuda@chem.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology
|October 13, 2011
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