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Advanced Confocal Microscopy Techniques to Study Protein-protein Interactions and Kinetics at DNA Lesions
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The inactivation of papain by high LET radiations

R H Bisby, R B Cundall, H E Sims

    International Journal of Radiation Biology and Related Studies in Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine
    |September 1, 1984
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