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Effect of FGF-BP on angiogenesis in squamous cell carcinoma
1Department of Internal Medicine, Sichuan University, West China Hospital, Key Laboratory of Biotherapy of Human Diseases, Ministry of Education, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China. weimi003@yahoo.com
Chinese Medical Journal
|April 28, 2004
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