Screening for Anticancer Agents from Sonoran Desert Plants:A Chemical Ecology Approach
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عنوان ژورنال: Pharmaceutical Biology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1388-0209,1744-5116
DOI: 10.3109/13880200490891287