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Reperfusion Injury: Idle Curiosity or Therapeutic Vector?

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Vinten-Johansen, J. Reperfusion Injury: Idle Curiosity or Therapeutic Vector?. J Thromb Thrombolysis 4, 59–61 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017538115617

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