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Aiman A Zein1, Rupinder Kaur2, Toka O K Hussein1

  • 1Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada.

Biochemical Society Transactions
|October 27, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
ATP-binding cassette transporterscardiovascular diseasecholesterol transportlipid metabolismsitosterolemiastructural biology

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