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Lars C Gormsen1, Michael D Jensen, Ole Schmitz

  • 1Medical Department M (Endocrinology and Diabetes), Aarhus University Hospital, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark.

Journal of Lipid Research
|July 20, 2006
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