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Fixed Volume or Fixed Pressure: A Murine Model of Hemorrhagic Shock
Published on: June 6, 2011
Changes of Intestinal Aquaporins after Experimental Polytrauma and Hemorrhagic Shock: Erratum
Jonas Sebastian Mattig1, Deniz Oezman2, Rald Victor Maria Groven2
1Institute for Clinical and Experimental Trauma-Immunology, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany.
Shock (Augusta, Ga.)
|June 30, 2026
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