Surgery
Volume 133, Issue 1 , Pages 91-100 , January 2003

Ischemia/reperfusion injury of skeletal muscle: Plasma taurine as a measure of tissue damage

,Accepted 26 June 2002.

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☆ Supported in part by a grant from Public Health Service (HL 55397).

☆☆ Reprint requests: Joseph Nanobashvili, MD, Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Vienna Medical School, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090, Vienna, Austria.

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doi: 10.1067/msy.2003.65

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