Mechanical Load and Polypeptide Growth Factors Stimulate Cardiac Fibroblast Activity
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 752 (1), 387-393
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb17446.x
Abstract
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