THE ROLE OF ADIPONECTIN AND TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4 GENE POLYMORPHISMS ON NON-PROLIFERATIVE RETINOPATHY IN TYPE 2

C S Aioanei1, R F Ilies1, C Bala2

  • 1"Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy - Department of Molecular Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania.

Acta Endocrinologica (Bucharest, Romania : 2005)
|June 1, 2019
PubMed
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