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Advanced Confocal Microscopy Techniques to Study Protein-protein Interactions and Kinetics at DNA Lesions
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Advanced Confocal Microscopy Techniques to Study Protein-protein Interactions and Kinetics at DNA Lesions

Published on: November 12, 2017

[Effect of serotonin on the yield of UV- and x ray-induced DNA damage]

E V Ivanova, G Ia Fraĭkin

    Biokhimiia (Moscow, Russia)
    |August 1, 1985
    PubMed

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