Conceptual novelities in atherogenesis: Smooth muscle cells, adventitia, and adipose tissue

Biomedical Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-67

  Chaldakov, George N ^a,b   Fiore, Marco ^a,b   Ghenev, Peter I ^a,b   Stankulov, Ivan S ^a,b   Angelucci, Francesco ^a,b   Pavlov, Pavel S ^a,b   Aloe, Luigi ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VARNA   (Bulgaria)

^b CNR   (Italy)

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EID: 0242462364     PISSN: 1310392X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14748/bmr.v11.131     Document Type: Article

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