Aurora-A and hBora join the game of Polo

Libor Macurek1, Arne Lindqvist, René H Medema

  • 1Department of Medical Oncology and Cancer Genomics Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Cancer Research
|June 3, 2009
PubMed

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