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. 1979 Nov;40(5):809–813. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1979.266

Effect of chronic N,N-diethylnitrosamine on the excision of O6-ethylguanine from rat liver DNA.

G P Margison, N J Curtin, K Snell, A W Craig
PMCID: PMC2010113  PMID: 508583

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