Roles of galectins in chronic inflammatory microenvironments
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Greg Parsonage, Emily Trebilcock, Marta A Toscano, Germán A Bianco, Juan M Ilarregui, Christopher D Buckley & Gabriel A Rabinovich† Hospital de Clínicas “José de San Martín”, Rabinovich, División Inmunogenética, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Av. Córdoba 2351, 3 Piso (C1120), Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel.: +54 115 950 8755; Fax: +54 115 950 8758; [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2006