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Christopher A Johnston1, J Philip Taylor, Yajun Gao

  • 1Department of Pharmacology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7365, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|October 24, 2007
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