Alpha-smooth muscle actin expression in rat and mouse mesenteric wounds after transforming growth factor-β1 treatment

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 339-347

  Ghassemifar, M Reza ^a   Schultz, Gregory S ^b   Tarnuzzer, Roy W ^b   Salerud, Göran ^a   Franzén, Lennart E ^a,c  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c RYHOV COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

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EID: 0000312322     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-475x.1997.50408.x     Document Type: Article

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