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Monoamine oxidase activity reduced in cultured human fetal cells deficient in hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase activity

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  1. S. D. Skaper

    Present address: Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, School of Medicine, 92093, La Jolla, California

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  1. Case Western Reserve University, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Human Genetics, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, 44109, Cleveland, Ohio

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This work was supported by NIH Grants GM-07004 and HD-10524 and by a grant from the Cleveland Foundation.

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Skaper, S.D., Schafer, I.A. Monoamine oxidase activity reduced in cultured human fetal cells deficient in hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase activity. Biochem Genet 16, 1135–1138 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00484533

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