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Original Article

Effect of light on the transfer of sugars from sugar nucleotides to rod outer segment membranes of control and dystrophic rats

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Pages 1173-1180 | Received 02 Jan 1987, Accepted 14 Aug 1987, Published online: 02 Jul 2009

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