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Elham Hoveizi1,2, Shima Tavakol3, Sadegh Shirian4,5

  • 1Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

Current Stem Cell Research & Therapy
|October 20, 2018
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Keywords:
Cell therapydiabetesdiabetes mellituselectrospun nanofiberscaffoldtissue engineering.

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