A four-year-old rabbit cannot be considered the right model for investigating cardiac senescence

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Pasquale Abete et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2002.

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. 2002 May 15;39(10):1701; author reply 1701-2.

doi: 10.1016/s0735-1097(02)01818-1.

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