Controlling Cellular Responses with Multivalent Ligands
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the agricultural chemical society of Japan
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0002-1407,1883-6844
DOI: 10.1271/nogeikagaku1924.78.1159