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Ruiying Niu1, Qiuli Yang1, Yingjie Dong1

  • 1Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Regulation Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Journal of Cellular Physiology
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