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Circulating periostin in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Stergios A Polyzos1, Jannis Kountouras2, Athanasios D Anastasilakis3
1Department of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. stergios@endo.gr.
Endocrine
|October 15, 2016
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