Functional tissue units and their primary tissue motifs in multi-scale physiology

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  de Bono, Bernard ^a,b   Grenon, Pierre ^c   Baldock, Richard ^d   Hunter, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84901479094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-4-22     Document Type: Article

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