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THE GRADIENT OF VASCULAR PERMEABILITY : III. THE GRADIENT ALONG THE CAPILLARIES AND VENULES OF FROG SKIN

P Rous1, F Smith

  • 1Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

The Journal of Experimental Medicine
|October 30, 2009
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