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International Journal of Radiation Biology Volume 67, 1995 - Issue 2
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Use of Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis to Investigate Factors Influencing the Measurement of DNA Double-strand Breaks in Human Brain Tumour Specimens

J. Wang Brain Tumor Research Center of the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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D.A. Delgado Brain Tumor Research Center of the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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D.F. Deen Brain Tumor Research Center of the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
Pages 153-160 | Received 14 Jan 1994, Accepted 12 Sep 1994, Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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