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Hypoxic cellular deterioration and its prevention by the amino acid taurine in a transplantation model with renal tubular cells (LLC-PK1)

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    Peter Wingenfeld, Ute Gehrmann, Stefan Strübind & Dietrich Michalk

  2. Institute for Experimental Medicine, University of Cologne, Joseph Stelzmann Strasse 9, D 50924, Cologne, Germany

    Thomas Minor & Wolf Isselhard

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Wingenfeld, P., Minor, T., Gehrmann, U. et al. Hypoxic cellular deterioration and its prevention by the amino acid taurine in a transplantation model with renal tubular cells (LLC-PK1). In Vitro Cell Dev Biol - Animal 31, 483–486 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02634022

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