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Mechanistic Insights on EMT and Smoking-Related COPD

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  1. Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs and School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia

    Shakti Shukla

  2. Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

    Shakti Shukla

  3. Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Chris Ward

  4. School of Medicine and Menzies Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

    E. Haydn Walters

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Shukla, S., Ward, C. & Walters, E.H. Mechanistic Insights on EMT and Smoking-Related COPD. Stem Cell Rev and Rep 17, 1503–1504 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12015-021-10152-8

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