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Sara Battistella1, Ulrike Protzer2, Xavier Forns3
1Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Spain; Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padua, Italy.
JHEP Reports : Innovation in Hepatology
|April 8, 2026
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