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The biological activity of coenzyme Q (ubiquinone) and its analogs

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Translated from Khimiko-Farmatsevticheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 18–29, March, 1976.

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Obol'nikova, E.A., Volkova, O.I. & Samokhvalov, G.I. The biological activity of coenzyme Q (ubiquinone) and its analogs. Pharm Chem J 10, 295–305 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00757975

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