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Is melatonin really an in vitro inhibitor of human breast cancer cell proliferation?

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  1. Laboratoire de Gynécologie & Obstétrique Hôpital Brugmann Faculté de Médecine place van Gehuchten, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

    Mireille L’Hermite-Balériaux

  2. Laboratoire d’Histologie Faculté de Médecine Campus Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 808 route de Lennik-CP 620, 1070, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Yvan de Launoit

  3. Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium

    Yvan de Launoit

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L’Hermite-Balériaux, M., de Launoit, Y. Is melatonin really an in vitro inhibitor of human breast cancer cell proliferation?. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol - Animal 28, 583–584 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02631028

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