Pancreatic stellate cells—role in pancreas cancer
✍ Scribed by Max G. Bachem; Shaoxia Zhou; Karin Buck; Wilhelm Schneiderhan; Marco Siech
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 874 KB
- Volume
- 393
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1435-2451
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