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Meili Zhu1, Yanyan Bai, Lixin Zheng
1Department of Medicine Endocrinology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
|December 21, 2011
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