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Editorials
Sympathetic activation and malignant ventricular arrhythmias: a molecular link?
a Clinical Cardiology, National Heart and Lung Institute, London, U.K.
b Cardiology Department, Military Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland
c Department of Cardiology, Charité, Campus Berlin-Buch, Max Delbrück Centrum for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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