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Elena A Vasileva1, Natalia P Mishchenko1, Sergey A Fedoreyev1

  • 1G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospect 100 let Vladivostoku 159/2, 690022, Vladivostok, Russia.

Chemistry & Biodiversity
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PubMed

Keywords:
HPLC-DAD/MSMethoxy derivatives of spinochromesPolyhydroxynaphthoquinonesSea urchinSpinochromes

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