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The multifaceted roles of perlecan in fibrosis

Megan S Lord1, Fengying Tang1, Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina1

  • 1Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.

Matrix Biology : Journal of the International Society for Matrix Biology
|February 24, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
FibrosisHeparan sulfatePerlecanProteoglycan

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