Sulfur-containing amino acids

Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Amino Acids and Peptides in the Nervous System

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 133-154

  McBean, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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