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This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2013CB910102), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31471303), and a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
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Yu, X., He, S. GSDME as an executioner of chemotherapy-induced cell death. Sci. China Life Sci. 60, 1291–1294 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-017-9142-2
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