Lung Organoids and Their Use To Study Cell-Cell Interaction

Current Pathobiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 223-231

  Nikolić, Marko Z ^a   Rawlins, Emma L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human lung; iPSCs; Lung progenitors; Mouse lung; Organoids

Indexed keywords

EID: 85052081811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2167485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40139-017-0137-7     Document Type: Review

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