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Endothelium: the main actor or choreographer in the remodelling of the retinal microvasculature in diabetes?

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  1. Department of Vascular Medicine, (Diabetes Research), Postgraduate Medical School, Barrack Road, EX2 5AX, Exeter, Devon, UK

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Tooke, J.E. Endothelium: the main actor or choreographer in the remodelling of the retinal microvasculature in diabetes?. Diabetologia 39, 745–746 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00418549

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