Human knee and ankle cartilage explants: catabolic differences
✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Eger; Barbara L Schumacher; Jürgen Mollenhauer; Klaus E Kuettner; Ada A Cole
- Book ID
- 108456993
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1002 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0736-0266
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