Tissue factor as a mediator of coagulation and signaling in cancer and chronic inflammation

Claudine Graf1, Wolfram Ruf2

  • 1Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany.

Thrombosis Research
|April 29, 2018
PubMed

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