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G. Nucifora, B. Smaller, R. Remko, E. C. Avery, Transient Radicals of DNA Bases by Pulse Radiolysis. Effects of Cysteine and Cysteamine as Radioprotectors, Radiation Research, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Jan., 1972), pp. 96-111
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