Therapeutic lymphangiogenesis after myocardial infarction: vascular endothelial growth factor-C paves the way

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Polina Goichberg. J Thorac Dis. 2016 Aug.

. 2016 Aug;8(8):1904-7.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2016.07.34.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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