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Formation of Human Prostate Epithelium Using Tissue Recombination of Rodent Urogenital Sinus Mesenchyme and Human Stem Cells
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Formation of Human Prostate Epithelium Using Tissue Recombination of Rodent Urogenital Sinus Mesenchyme and Human Stem Cells

Published on: June 22, 2013

A Vaalasti, A Hervonen

    The American Journal of Anatomy
    |January 1, 1980
    PubMed

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