Bioinorganic chemistry and drug design: Here comes zinc again

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1998, Pages

  Thorp, Holden ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 0032101876     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(98)90166-1     Document Type: Note

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