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Original Article

EPR Study of Mouse Tissues in Search for Adaptive Responses to Low Level Whole-body X-irradiation

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Pages 327-336 | Received 17 Jul 1991, Accepted 05 Feb 1992, Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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