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Genesis of remote conditioning: action at a distance--'hypotheses non fingo'?

Karin Przyklenk1, Peter Whittaker

  • 1Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA. kprzykle@med.wayne.edu

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine (Hagerstown, Md.)
|September 12, 2012
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