Generation of islets of Langerhans from adult pancreatic stem cells
β Scribed by Peck, Ammon B. ;Cornelius, Janet G. ;Schatz, Desmond ;Ramiya, Vijayakumar K.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 241 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1166
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