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Original Article

Fast Kinetics of the Oxygen Effect for DNA Double-strand Breakage and Cell Killing in Irradiated Yeast

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Pages 485-501 | Received 20 Jul 1987, Accepted 20 Oct 1989, Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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