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Changes in the expression of transcription factors in pancreatic AR42J cells during differentiation into

Y Q Zhang1, H Mashima, I Kojima

  • 1Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation, Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan.

Diabetes
|March 29, 2001
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