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Sorcin, a potential therapeutic target for reversing multidrug resistance in cancer

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This work was funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China Grants (30973548) and Shandong Province Outstanding Young Scientists Research Award Fund Project (BS2010SW020).

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    Bei-Bei Zheng, Peng Zhang, Wei-Wei Jia & Xiu-Li Guo

  2. The Henry Wellcome Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Gastroenterology, Liverpool Centre for Glycobiology, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

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Zheng, BB., Zhang, P., Jia, WW. et al. Sorcin, a potential therapeutic target for reversing multidrug resistance in cancer. J Physiol Biochem 68, 281–287 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13105-011-0140-0

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