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Publisher Correction: Cold-induced expression of a truncated adenylyl cyclase 3 acts as rheostat to brown fat
Sajjad Khani1,2, Hande Topel3,4, Ronja Kardinal5
1Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Nature Metabolism
|April 4, 2025
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