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Patients with organic acidaemias have an altered thiol status

Heli Salmi1, James V Leonard, Risto Lapatto

  • 1Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Helsinki, Finland. heli.salmi@helsinki.fi

Acta Paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)
|August 2, 2012
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