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Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism Between Millennia: What has been Accomplished, What has to be Done?

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Van Den Berghe, G. (2002). Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism Between Millennia: What has been Accomplished, What has to be Done?. In: Zoref-Shani, E., Sperling, O. (eds) Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism in Man X. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 486. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46843-3_1

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