Structural and functional coupling of cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts.

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Published in Adv Cardiol on January 01, 2006

Authors

Patrizia Camelliti1, Colin R Green, Peter Kohl

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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