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Natural Product Research
Formerly Natural Product Letters
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Fractionation, amino acid profiles, antimicrobial and free radical scavenging activities of Citrullus lanatus seed protein

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Pages 2945-2947 | Received 06 Jan 2017, Accepted 25 Feb 2017, Published online: 10 Apr 2017

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