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Levick’s Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology: A favourite cardiovascular textbook gets better
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Becoming a clinical academic physiologist: Reflections 20 years on, from an Undergraduate Prize winner
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A time to fast, a time to feast
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A chronology of chronobiology
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Time for a medical revolution
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