Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids as inducers of apoptosis: implications for cancer
✍ Scribed by Simona Serini; Elisabetta Piccioni; Nicolò Merendino; Gabriella Calviello
- Book ID
- 106349768
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 392 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1360-8185
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