Chronic Vascular Complications in Diabetes
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1 Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai 200233, China 2The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong 3University of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA 4Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 200031, China 5 Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
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دوره 2013 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2013