Cucurbitacin B and cancer intervention: Chemistry, biology and mechanisms (Review)
- Authors:
- Sukant Garg
- Sunil C. Kaul
- Renu Wadhwa
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Affiliations: Drug Discovery and Assets Innovation Lab, DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan - Published online on: November 10, 2017 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2017.4203
- Pages: 19-37
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