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Free radicals and redox signalling in cardiovascular disease: introduction
  1. A M Shah1,
  2. K M Channon2
  1. 1Department of Cardiology, Guy’s King’s & St Thomas’s School of Medicine, King’s College London, UK; ajay.shah@kcl.ac.uk
  2. 2Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2003.032482

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