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Original Article

Effect of hypertonic glucose in thermotolerant rat BT4An gliomas treated with combined hyperthermia and BCNU in vivo

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Pages 115-123 | Received 07 Sep 1994, Accepted 28 Dec 1994, Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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