Mast cells and metabolic syndrome.

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Published in Biochim Biophys Acta on December 23, 2010

Authors

Jie Zhang1, Guo-Ping Shi

Author Affiliations

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

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