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Combination of simvastatin with berberine improves the lipid-lowering efficacy
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- Authors
- Kong, W.-J., Wei, J., Zuo, Z.-Y., Wang, Y.-M., Song, D.-Q., You, X.-F., Zhao, L.-X., Pan, H.-N., & Jiang, J.-D.
- Venue
- Metabolism
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-08
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1029-1037
- ISSN
- 0026-0495 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2147542963
- Cited by
- 162
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 3.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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