Understanding the kidney one cell at a time

Jihwan Park1, Chang Linda Liu1, Junhyong Kim2

  • 1Renal, Electrolyte, and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Kidney International
|September 8, 2019
PubMed

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