Rheumatic Heart Disease: Proinflammatory Cytokines Play a Role in the Progression and Maintenance of Valvular Lesions
- 30 November 2004
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of Pathology
- Vol. 165 (5), 1583-1591
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9440(10)63415-3
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