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Application of germ-free NOD-scid IL2rgnull mice as a humanized model for tumor microbiome precision medicine

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This work was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFD0500503 and 2017YFD0501000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81770434 and 81370906), and the National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China (973 Program) (2007CB513007 and 2013CB531406).

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    Chengwei Wu, Haitao Shang, Xianhong Jiang, Xinning Wang & Hong Wei

  2. College of Animal Sciences and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China

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Wu, C., Shang, H., Jiang, X. et al. Application of germ-free NOD-scid IL2rgnull mice as a humanized model for tumor microbiome precision medicine. Sci. China Life Sci. 64, 644–647 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1876-1

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