The Anti-neoplastic Effects of Alpha-Lipoic Acid: Clinical Benefits in System Tumors besides Lung Carcinomas
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− 162 − Private practice Received: August 30, 2012, Revised: September 21, 2012, Accepted: October 8, 2012 Corresponding author: Shailendra Kapoor, Private practice, Chicago, IL, USA (Tel) 1-865-345-2345 (Fax) 1-865-657-6767 (E-mail) [email protected] C The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2013. All right reserved. CC This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Anti-neoplastic Effects of Alpha-Lipoic Acid: Clinical Benefits in System Tumors besides Lung Carcinomas
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