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Radiation-induced acute intestinal inflammation differs following total-body versus abdominopelvic irradiation in the ferret

S. L. Freeman, M. Hossain, W. K. MacNaughton Mucosal Inflammation Research Group and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
Pages 389-395 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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