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Extra-adrenal glucocorticoid synthesis: immune regulation and aspects on local organ homeostasis

Gergely Talabér1, Mikael Jondal, Sam Okret

  • 1Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Novum, SE-141 83 Huddinge, Sweden.

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
|May 28, 2013
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