Rivista di formazione e aggiornamento professionale del pediatra e del medico di base, fondata nel 1982. In collaborazione con l'Associazione Culturale Pediatri.
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Le citochine: da mediatori della flogosi a bersaglio della terapia

TARCISIO NOT, EMANUELE BURATTI, IRENE BERTI, CHIARA TREVISIOL, ELENA NERI, ALBERTO TOMMASINI

Laboratorio Immunologico, Istituto di Clinica Pediatrica, IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste

Febbraio 1998 - pagg. 103 -107

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