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Overcoming Drug Development Bottlenecks With Repurposing: Repurposing biguanides to target energy metabolism for cancer treatment

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Figure 1: Repurposing metformin.

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Pollak, M. Overcoming Drug Development Bottlenecks With Repurposing: Repurposing biguanides to target energy metabolism for cancer treatment. Nat Med 20, 591–593 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.3596

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