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Letter to the Editor

Discovery of new AKT1 inhibitors by combination of in silico structure based virtual screening approaches and biological evaluations

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Pages 368-377 | Received 02 Nov 2019, Accepted 03 Nov 2019, Published online: 12 Feb 2020

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