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Purification of Hepatocytes and Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells from Mouse Liver Perfusion
Published on: February 12, 2018
Purification of cytochromes P450. Rat and human hepatic forms
1Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|October 28, 2003
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