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Defining the links between oxidative stress-based biomarkers and postoperative atrial fibrillation
Ellen R Lubbers1, Nathaniel P Murphy1, Peter J Mohler1
1Departments of Physiology & Cell Biology and Internal Medicine, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH (E.R.L., N.P.M., P.J.M.).
Journal of the American Heart Association
|May 22, 2015
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