Structural and conformational changes in myocardial and erythrocyte actin during cardiac ischemia

G V Sukoyan1, T M Berberashvili, D R Tatulashvili

  • 1N. V. Karsanov Republican Research Center for Medical Biophysics and Implementation of New Biomedical Technologies, Tbilisi.

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