Transforming growth factor-β1 reduces expansion of open wounds in the fetal rabbit

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 477-481

  Alaish, Samuel M ^a   Olutoye, Oluyinka O ^a   Yager, Dorne R ^a   Liang, Hui Xiu ^a   Cohen, I Kelman ^a   Diegelmann, Robert F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 0006599088     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-475X.1996.40412.x     Document Type: Article

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