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Isolation and Excision of Murine Aorta; A Versatile Technique in the Study of Cardiovascular Disease
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Isolation and Excision of Murine Aorta; A Versatile Technique in the Study of Cardiovascular Disease

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[Morphology of dissecting aneurysms of the aorta]

M A Golosovskaia, V I Ermolaev

    Arkhiv Patologii
    |January 1, 1987
    PubMed

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