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Gionata Fiorino1, Ferdinando D'Amico2, Angelo Italia3

  • 1Humanitas University, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Rozzano, Milan, Italy; Humanitas Clinical and Research Institute, IBD Center, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.

Best Practice & Research. Clinical Gastroenterology
|August 1, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
JAK inhibitorsSmall moleculesUlcerative colitis

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