Tracking mesenchymal stem cells in the liver by magnetic resonance imaging
1Laboratoire de physiopathologie hépatique et imagerie moléculaire, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Rue Micheli-du-Crest, 24, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland. catherine.pastor@hcuge.ch
Journal of Hepatology
|September 21, 2005
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