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A Simple Flow Cytometric Method to Measure Glucose Uptake and Glucose Transporter Expression for Monocyte Subpopulations in Whole Blood
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[Characteristics of the functional activity of leukocytes in diabetes mellitus]

V A Galenok, I A Bondar'

    Terapevticheskii Arkhiv
    |January 1, 1985
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