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Molecular mechanisms of metabolic regulation by insulin in Drosophila

Aurelio A Teleman1

  • 1German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. a.teleman@dkfz.de

The Biochemical Journal
|December 17, 2009
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