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Assessing Whole-Body Lipid-Handling Capacity in Mice
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The functional efficiency of lipogenic and cholesterogenic gene expression in normal mice and in mice lacking the
Geoffrey F Gibbons1, Dilip Patel, David Wiggins
1Metabolic Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, UK. geoff.gibbons@mrl.ox.ac.uk
Advances in Enzyme Regulation
|July 19, 2002
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