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Good COP, bad COP: an unsolved murder. Are dietary cholesterol oxidation products guilty of atherogenicity?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Keri L. H. Carpenter
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK
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Abstract

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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2002

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