Severe fibrosis and increased expression of fibrogenic cytokines in the gastric wall of systemic sclerosis patients
✍ Scribed by Mirko Manetti; Elena Neumann; Anna Franca Milia; Ingo H. Tarner; Paolo Bechi; Marco Matucci-Cerinic; Lidia Ibba-Manneschi; Ulf Müller-Ladner
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 220 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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