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Chemotherapy-induced Vascular Toxicity - Real-time In vivo Imaging of Vessel Impairment
Published on: January 7, 2015
Drug-induced vascular injury--a quest for biomarkers
William Kerns1, Lester Schwartz, Kerry Blanchard
1Pharma Consulting Inc.
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
|February 8, 2005
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