Molecular probes for in vivo optical imaging of chemotherapy
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E-mail addresses: yongmin.zhang@upmc.fr (Y. Zhang), fengruiyang@hnu.edu.cn (F. Yang), wdpan@163.com (W. Pan).
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Lingling Lei, Lang Liu, Yi Zhu, Yanni Wang, Zhiyao Li, Yongmin Zhang, Fengrui Yang, Weidong Pan. Molecular probes for in vivo optical imaging of chemotherapy[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters,
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