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M A Prado1, B Evans-Bain, I M Dickerson

  • 1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016430, Miami, FL 33101, USA.

Biochemical Society Transactions
|August 28, 2002
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