Beyond Fibroblast Heterogeneity: What Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Tells Us

Yong Zhou¹

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Yong Zhou. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2019 Jul.

. 2019 Jul;61(1):7-8.

doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2019-0120ED.

Yong Zhou¹

¹ 1 Department of Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama.

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