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A Human Ex Vivo Atherosclerotic Plaque Model to Study Lesion Biology
Published on: May 6, 2014
C-reactive protein and atherogenesis: new insights from established animal models
1University of Ulm, Department of Internal Medicine II--Cardiology, 89081 Ulm, Germany. jan.torzewski@medizin.uni-ulm.de
The American Journal of Pathology
|September 30, 2005
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