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New uses for old copper-binding drugs: converting the pro-angiogenic copper to a specific cancer cell death inducer

Di Chen Wayne State University, The Prevention Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA +1 313 576 8301; +1 313 576 8307; [email protected]
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Q Ping Dou Wayne State University, The Prevention Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA +1 313 576 8301; +1 313 576 8307; [email protected]
Pages 739-748 | Published online: 15 May 2008

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