Unfounded Claims of Improved Functional Outcomes Attributed to Follistatin Gene Therapy in Inclusion Body Myositis.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy
دوره 25 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017