Pharmacology and Clinical Application of Plants in Epimedium L.

Chinese Herbal Medicines - Tập 8 Số 1 - Trang 12-23 - 2016
Jun Jiang1,2, Bingjie Zhao2, Jie Song2, Xiao‐Bin Jia2
1Department of Pharmaceutics, Jiangsu University, Jiangsu, Zhenjiang, 212013, China
2Key Laboratory of New Drug Delivery System of Chinese Materia Medica, Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210028, China

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