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Minced Tissue in Compressed Collagen: A Cell-containing Biotransplant for Single-staged Reconstructive Repair
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Exclusion of dextrans by meshworks of collagenous fibres

R H Pearce, T C Laurent

    The Biochemical Journal
    |June 1, 1977
    PubMed

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