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[Formation of 7-dehydrocholesterol ketoderivative - cholesta-4,7-dien-3-one in stomach and intestinal rat tissues]

I A Nikolenko, R P Morozova, V P Vendt

    Ukrainskii Biokhimicheskii Zhurnal (1978)
    |May 1, 1979
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