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Yanchun Liu1, Yijie Wang1, Jason Chakroff2

  • 11 The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.

Tissue Engineering. Part A
|October 5, 2018
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Keywords:
donor ageintestinal stem cellstissue maturationtissue-engineered small intestine

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