Review of the chemistry of aloes of Africa

Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-103

  Dagne, Ermias ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

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