The chicken chorioallantoic membrane model in biology, medicine and bioengineering

Angiogenesis - Tập 17 Số 4 - Trang 779-804 - 2014
Patrycja Nowak‐Sliwinska1, Tatiana Segura2, M. Luisa Iruela‐Arispe2
1Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-EPFL
2UCLA

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