Homocysteine and Thrombotic Disease

Blood - Tập 90 Số 1 - Trang 1-11 - 1997
Armando D’Angelo1, Jacob Selhub1
1From the Coagulation Service, Scientific Institute H.S. Raffaele, Milano, Italy, and the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA.

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