Cuts and scrapes? Plasmin heals!

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 284-285

  Vassalli, Jean Dominique ^a   Saurat, Jean Hilaire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMIN;

MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN INJURY; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; GENE TARGETING; MICE; PLASMIN; PLASMINOGEN; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0029876472     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0396-284     Document Type: Short Survey

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