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Yun-Ui Bae1, Jae-Wan Huh2, Bieong-Kil Kim3

  • 1Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu 42415, Republic of Korea.

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
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