VITAMIN D RECEPTOR ACTIVATION AND A NOVEL CLASSIFICATION OF CARDIO-RENAL SYNDROME
β Scribed by Sirous Darabian; Manoch Rattanasompattikul; Parta Hatamizadeh; Suphamai Bunnapradist; Matthew J. Budoff; Csaba P Kovesdy; Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
- Book ID
- 119317318
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 2211-9132
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