Burns
Volume 31, Issue 5 , Pages 603-609 , August 2005

Effects of heparin on bacterial translocation and gut epithelial apoptosis after burn injury in the rat: Dose-dependent inhibition of the complement cascade

,Accepted 19 January 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2005.01.020

Burns
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