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Induction of TSP1 gene expression by heat shock is mediated via an increase in mRNA stability

Jung-Hoon Kang1, Soo-A Kim, Kyong-Ja Hong

  • 1Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 505 Banpo-dong, Socho-gu, Seoul 137-701, Republic of Korea.

FEBS Letters
|January 4, 2006
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