Effects of simvastatin on the development of the atrial fibrillation substrate in dogs with congestive heart failure.

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Published in Cardiovasc Res on January 11, 2007

Authors

Akiko Shiroshita-Takeshita1, Bianca J J M Brundel, Brett Burstein, Tack-Ki Leung, Hideo Mitamura, Satoshi Ogawa, Stanley Nattel

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine and Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, Canada.

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