A new perspective in pyroptosis: lifting the veil on GSDMA activation

Pian Yu et al.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82073458) and Scientific Research and Innovation Project of postgraduates in Hunan Province (No. 150110028).

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Pian Yu, Xiang Chen, and Cong Peng declare no competing financial interests. This manuscript is a comment and does not involve a research protocol requiring approval by the relevant institutional review board or ethics committee.

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