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Tomohiro Obata1,2, Tomoshi Tsuchiya1,3, Sadanori Akita4

  • 11Department of Surgical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.

Tissue Engineering. Part C, Methods
|July 19, 2019
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