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Lipopolysaccharide Infusion as a Porcine Endotoxemic Shock Model

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David L Goldman1, Arturo Casadevall

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. dgoldma@aecom.yu.edu

Frontiers in Bioscience : a Journal and Virtual Library
|May 30, 2008
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