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Response to Comment on “Overlapping Mechanisms of Exertional Heat Stroke and Malignant Hyperthermia: Evidence vs. Conjecture”

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The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private views of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the US Army or the Department of Defense. Any citations of commercial organizations and trade names in this report do not constitute an official Department of the Army endorsement of approval of the products or services of these organizations.

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  1. Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

    Orlando Laitano

  2. Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

    Kevin O. Murray

  3. Thermal and Mountain Medicine Division, US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA, USA

    Lisa R. Leon

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This letter refers to the article available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-020-01318-4.

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Laitano, O., Murray, K.O. & Leon, L.R. Response to Comment on “Overlapping Mechanisms of Exertional Heat Stroke and Malignant Hyperthermia: Evidence vs. Conjecture”. Sports Med 52, 673–675 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-021-01571-1

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