Shenduning Granule Attenuates Renal Injury from Oxidative Stress through the Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2-Related

Xiao-Jun Fu1, Shuang-Yan Hu2

  • 1Department of Nephropath, Jinhua Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinhua, China, fuxj_med@163.com.

Pharmacology
|January 31, 2019
PubMed
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