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New principles of cell plasticity

Neil D Theise1

  • 1Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, Room 461, 560 First Avenue, New York, NY 10003, USA. neil.theise@med.nyu.edu

Comptes Rendus Biologies
|December 24, 2002
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