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Kota N Gopalakrishna1, Kimberly K Boyd, Nikolai O Artemyev

  • 1Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States.

Biochemistry
|February 14, 2012
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