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Acute Myocardial Infarction in Rats
Published on: February 16, 2011
National Institutes of Health Funding of Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Research
Ryan A Coute1, Logan L Beach1, Jolanda Hudson1
1Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL.
Annals of Emergency Medicine
|June 4, 2025
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