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1From the Department of Medicine, Institute of Molecular Cardiology (K.U.H., J.B.M.) and Department of Medicine, Diabetes and Obesity Center (K.U.H.), University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
Circulation Research
|December 7, 2013
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