Alcohol
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 141-147 , June 2000

The EPR study of LDL perturbed by alcohols with different molecular architecture

  • Marina Kveder

      Affiliations

    • Ruer Boškovič Institute, FK/LMR, Bijenička 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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  • Greta Pifat

      Affiliations

    • Ruer Boškovič Institute, FK/LMR, Bijenička 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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  • Anamarija Jelovečki

      Affiliations

    • Ruer Boškovič Institute, FK/LMR, Bijenička 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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  • Branimir Klaić

      Affiliations

    • Ruer Boškovič Institute, FK/LMR, Bijenička 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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  • Slavko Pečar

      Affiliations

    • J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
    • Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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  • Milan Schara

      Affiliations

    • J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Received 19 July 1999 ,Revised 28 October 1999 ,Accepted 25 January 2000.

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