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Gliotoxin-mediated apoptosis of activated human hepatic stellate cells

Young-Oh Kweon1, Yong-Han Paik, Bernd Schnabl

  • 1Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, CB# 7038, Glaxo Research Bldg. Rm. 156, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.

Journal of Hepatology
|June 25, 2003
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