Radiosensitization of cancer stem cells in glioblastoma by the simultaneous inhibition of parallel DNA damage response pathways

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Yasunori Fukumoto. Ann Transl Med. 2017 May.

. 2017 May;5(Suppl 1):S2.

doi: 10.21037/atm.2017.03.39.

¹ Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

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