The clinical material is presented in Table 1. Twenty-six patients were studied, 15 men and 11 women ranging in age from thirty-six to seventy-six years. Eleven patients had coronary-artery disease, 7 ...

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A team of researchers, led by Professor Chae Un Kim from the Department of Physics at UNIST, has successfully tracked the catalytic pathway of carbonic anhydrase II (CAII), an enzyme that converts ...

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