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Visualization of ATP Synthase Dimers in Mitochondria by Electron Cryo-tomography
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The dystrophin connection--ATP?

C A Bonsett1, A Rudman

  • 1Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46223.

Medical Hypotheses
|June 1, 1992
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