DNA damage and repair: Photochemistry

CRC Handbook of: Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 141-1-141-22

  Friedel, Marcus G ^a   Cichon, Michaela K ^a   Carell, Thomas ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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