Transforming growth factor-β1 in children with diabetic nephropathy

Happy Sawires1, Osama Botrous2, Abdelmegeed Aboulmagd2

  • 1Pediatric Nephrology & Transplantation Center, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. happy7_kd@yahoo.com.

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