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miR-33 Regulation of Adaptive Fibrotic Response in Cardiac Remodeling
Xinbo Zhang1, Carlos Fernández-Hernando2
1From the Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program, Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism Program, Section of Comparative Medicine, and Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Circulation Research
|March 4, 2017
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