The 18 kDa Translocator Protein as a Potential Participant in Atherosclerosis
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Jasmina Dimitrova-Shumkovska1, Leo Veenman2 and Moshe Gavish2 1Institute of Biology, Department of Experimental Biochemistry and Physiology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, 2Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Haifa, 1Republic of Macedonia 2Israel
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