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Phosphate toxicity: a stealth biochemical stress factor?

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Acknowledgments

The authors respectfully acknowledge the kind support of late Prof. Takashi Taguchi of Department of Pathology at the Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan in our research. Kidneys of Fig. 1 were processed and stained in his Department.

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  2. Department of Applied Oral Sciences, Forsyth Institute, 245 First Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA

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  3. Division of Research and Development, VPS Health Care, Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Mohammed S. Razzaque

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Brown, R.B., Razzaque, M.S. Phosphate toxicity: a stealth biochemical stress factor?. Med Mol Morphol 49, 1–4 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00795-015-0122-3

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