Design of Hypoxia-Targeting Drugs as New Cancer Chemotherapeutics
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0918-6158,1347-5215
DOI: 10.1248/bpb.29.2335