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Acknowledgment The studies of LCC and RBF described in this review were supported in part by NIH grants CA71207, CA21097, CA79903, and CA93443.

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Franklin, R.B., Costello, L.C. (2009). Citrate Metabolism in Prostate and Other Cancers. In: Mitochondria and Cancer. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84835-8_4

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