Paradoxes in studies of liver regeneration: Relevance of the parable of the blind men and the elephant.

Hepatology

Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Program in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.

Published: August 2015

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