Vascular endothelial growth factor in inflammatory bowel disease
β Scribed by Andreas Kapsoritakis; Aekaterini Sfiridaki; Efstratios Maltezos; Kostantinos Simopoulos; Alexandra Giatromanolaki; Efthimios Sivridis; Michael I. Koukourakis
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 241 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0179-1958
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