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James D Vasta1, Ronald T Raines2

  • 1Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States.

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
|May 30, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
CollagenHydroxyprolineHypoxia-inducible factorIronα-Ketoglutarate

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