منابع مشابه
Cancer Chemoprevention
1Biology Department, College of Science, UAE University, Al-Ain 17551, UAE 2Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Cairo 12613, Egypt 3Department for Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology, National Institute of Biology, Večna Pot 111, Ljubljana, Slovenia 4Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA 5Experimental Tum...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1110-7243,1110-7251
DOI: 10.1155/2012/250491