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The application of polyhydroxyalkanoates as tissue engineering materials

✍ Scribed by Guo-Qiang Chen; Qiong Wu

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
322 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
0142-9612

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