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Murine Left Anterior Descending (LAD) Coronary Artery Ligation: An Improved and Simplified Model for Myocardial Infarction
Published on: April 2, 2017
Dissection of left anterior descending artery following a motor vehicle accident
Mazda Biria1, Vinod Raxwal, David Wilson
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
Clinical Cardiology
|September 12, 2007
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