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Molecular and cellular biology of the small intestine

C Jobin1, K E Behrns, D A Brenner

  • 1Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7080, USA.

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology
|October 7, 2006
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