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Yu-Ting Liu1, Ze-Min Lin2, Shi-Jun He1

  • 1Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, People's Republic of China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China.

Life Sciences
|December 24, 2018
PubMed
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Keywords:
Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1)LupusOsteoarthritisOxidative stressRheumatic arthritisRheumatic diseases

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