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Mark H Lee1, Paul Ducheyne, Laura Lynch

  • 1Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. markhl@alumni.upenn.edu

Biomaterials
|November 29, 2005
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