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Rat intestinal acyl coenzyme A: cholesterol acyl transferase properties and location

L L Gallo, S Myers, G V Vahouny

    Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (New York, N.Y.)
    |October 1, 1984
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