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Repurposing an old anti-fungal drug as a Hedgehog inhibitor

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  • 1. Molecular Oncology Program, DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; 2. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755, USA; 3. Institute of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery of PLA, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China

Published date: 01 May 2010

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Camilla Giambelli, Dennis Liang Fei, Huaizhi Wang, David J. Robbins . Repurposing an old anti-fungal drug as a Hedgehog inhibitor[J]. Protein & Cell, 2010 , 1(5) : 417 -418 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-010-0063-5

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