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Chemotactic migration of human diploid fibroblasts is inhibited by contactinhibin

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    Raimund J. Wieser, Franz Oesch & Renate Engel

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Wieser, R.J., Oesch, F. & Engel, R. Chemotactic migration of human diploid fibroblasts is inhibited by contactinhibin. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol - Animal 28, 233–234 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02634238

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