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Jun-Young Park1, Ja-Shil Hyun2, Jun-Goo Jee3

  • 1Lee Gil Ya Cancer and Diabetes Institute, Gachon University, Incheon, 21999, Republic of Korea.

International Journal of Nanomedicine
|July 30, 2021
PubMed
Abstract

Keywords:
carbon nanotubecovalent conjugationmethotrexaterheumatoid arthritisstructural deformation

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