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Comparative cytology: the third principle of selectivity

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Selective Toxicity

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It is an everyday observation that the various forms of life differ greatly in size. The frontispiece of this book shows pictorially how mammals, insects, and bacteria form a series in which the size of average members decreases a thousandfold, then a thousandfold again, whereas molecules (of the size of drugs, vitamins, and coenzymes) are a thousandfold smaller still.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Australian National University, Camberra, Australia

    Adrien Albert D.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D. Medicine (Lond.) (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Emeritus, Research Professor)

  2. Department of Pharmacological Sciences, School of Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

    Adrien Albert D.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D. Medicine (Lond.) (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Emeritus, Research Professor)

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Australian National University, Camberra, Australia

    Adrien Albert D.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D. Medicine (Lond.) (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Emeritus, Research Professor) (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Emeritus, Research Professor)

  2. Department of Pharmacological Sciences, School of Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

    Adrien Albert D.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D. Medicine (Lond.) (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Emeritus, Research Professor) (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Emeritus, Research Professor)

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Albert, A. (1985). Comparative cytology: the third principle of selectivity. In: Albert, A. (eds) Selective Toxicity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4846-4_5

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