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M I Youshko1, T A Shamolina, D F Guranda

  • 1Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119899, Russia.

Biochemistry. Biokhimiia
|October 31, 1998
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