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Johann Clouet1, Marianne Pot-Vaucel, Gaël Grimandi

  • 1INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale) U791, LIOAD, Group Skeletal Tissue Engineering and Physiopathology (STEP), University of Nantes, Nantes F-44042, France.

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
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