50-Hz sinusoidal magnetic field effect on in vitro pineal N-acetyltransferase activity

Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 339-343

  Chacón, Lucía ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

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