[The coagulation characteristics of human oxyhemoglobin in the presence of a mercury (II) ion in a neutral phosphate

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A Study of the Complexation of Mercury(II) with Dicysteinyl Tetrapeptides by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry
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A Study of the Complexation of Mercury(II) with Dicysteinyl Tetrapeptides by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry

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L D Bogdanova, A E Myshkin

    Izvestiia Akademii Nauk SSSR. Seriia Biologicheskaia
    |March 1, 1990
    PubMed

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