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P.S.B. is funded by the US National Institutes of Health (RO1-HL071158). M.D.B. is supported by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust (065326/Z/01/Z and 066750/B/01/Z). We thank Mary-Ellen Harper (University of Ottawa, Canada) for Ucp3−/− mice, Brad Lowell (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) for Ucp2−/− mice, and Sergiy Nadtochiy (University of Rochester) for technical assistance.
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Brookes, P., Parker, N., Buckingham, J. et al. UCPs — unlikely calcium porters. Nat Cell Biol 10, 1235–1237 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb1108-1235
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