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Selective inhibitors of dihydrofolate reductase

  • Nobel Lectures in Physiology or Medicine—1988
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Hitchings, G.H. Selective inhibitors of dihydrofolate reductase. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 25, 303–310 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02624591

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