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Thromb Haemost 2014; 112(01): 216-218
DOI: 10.1160/TH13-10-0889
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The role of cysteinyl cathepsins in venous disorders

Xian Wu Cheng
1   Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
3   Department of Cardiology, Yanbian University Hospital, Yanji, Jilin Province, China
4   Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
,
Takeshi Sasaki
2   Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
,
Masafumi Kuzuya
1   Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
› Author Affiliations Financial support: This work was supported in part by a grant from the Japan Takeda Science Foundation (no. 26–007590); by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology of Korea (BioR&D program, 2010–0019913); and a grant from The Scientific Research Fund of the Chinese Ministry of Education (no. 82160068).
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Received: 31 October 2013

Accepted after major revision: 31 January 2014

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01 December 2017 (online)

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