Does transformation of microvascular endothelial cells into myofibroblasts play a key role in the etiology and pathology of fibrotic disease?
- 31 December 2007
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Medical Hypotheses
- Vol. 68 (3) , 650-655
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2006.07.053
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