Hepatic Steatosis in ACE2-Deficient Mice
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1Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany 2Laboratório de Reatividade Cardiovascular (LRC), Núcleo de Sı́ndromeMetabólica, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil 3National Institute of Science and Technology in Nano-Biopharmaceutics (N-BIOFAR), Belo Horizonte, Brazil 4Departamento de Fisiologia e Farmacologia, Centro de Biociências (CB), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil 5Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 6Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria 7Charité–University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany 8Institute for Biology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany 9German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Berlin, Germany
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