Hepatic Stellate Cells in Inflammation-Fibrosis-Carcinoma Axis
β Scribed by Bin-Bin Wang; Jun-Yao Cheng; Hong-Hao Gao; Yang Zhang; Zhi-Nan Chen; Huijie Bian
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 70 KB
- Volume
- 293
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1932-8486
- DOI
- 10.1002/ar.21173
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