Conformational Study of N-terminal Prion Peptides by Molecular Dynamics Simulations
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0253-2964
DOI: 10.5012/bkcs.2011.32.10.3553