Effects of electrically generated silver ions on human cells and wound healing

Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 1-19

  Becker, Robert O ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Box 278 ^*  (United States)

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