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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Organ Regeneration and Reconstruction, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.

Protein & Cell
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NFAT1agingherniationnucleus pulposussenescencesingle-nucleus transcriptomics

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