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Cardiac carnitine leakage is promoted by cardiomyopathy

Herman Baker1, Barbara DeAngelis, James Orlando

  • 1Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health and Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA. bakerhe@umdnj.edu

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|March 31, 2005
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