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An Organotypic High Throughput System for Characterization of Drug Sensitivity of Primary Multiple Myeloma Cells
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MicroRNA profiles of drug-resistant myeloma cell lines
Reinhold Munker1, Chang-Gong Liu, Cristian Taccioli
1Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA. rmunke@lsuhsc.edu
Acta Haematologica
|April 2, 2010
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