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Tissue Stem Cells and the Stem Cell Niche of the Human Vocal Fold Mucosa

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Sato, K. (2018). Tissue Stem Cells and the Stem Cell Niche of the Human Vocal Fold Mucosa. In: Functional Histoanatomy of the Human Larynx. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5586-7_12

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