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Blood flow and macromolecular transport in complex blood vessels

Jinxing Hong1, Lan Wei, Ceji Fu

  • 1State Key Lab for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

Clinical Biomechanics (Bristol, Avon)
|September 5, 2007
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