Epidermal growth factor and basic fibroblast growth factor, but not nerve growth factor, stimulate adrenocortical regeneration

Biomedical Letters

Volumn 56, Issue 222, 1997, Pages 101-104

  Zieleniewski, Wojciech ^a   Zieleniewski, Jerzy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adrenal regeneration; bFGF; EGF; NGF

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031325740     PISSN: 0961088X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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