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Research Article

1H NMR spectroscopic investigations of tissue metabolite biomarker response to Cu II exposure in terrestrial invertebrates: identification of free histidine as a novel biomarker of exposure to copper in earthworms

J. O. T. Gibb
,
C. Svendsen
,
J. M. Weeks
&
J. K. Nicholson
Pages 295-302 | Published online: 29 Sep 2008

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