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Published in Science on January 12, 2007

Authors

Dieter Rosskopf1, Alexa Bornhorst, Christian Rimmbach, Christian Schwahn, Alexander Kayser, Anne Krüger, Grietje Tessmann, Ingrid Geissler, Heyo K Kroemer, Henry Völzke

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Pharmacology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany. dieter.rosskopf@uni-greifswald.de

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