Cancer Letters
Volume 208, Issue 1 , Pages 51-58 , 10 May 2004

Potentiated anticancer effects on hepatoma cells by the retinoid adapalene

Received 11 July 2003 ,Accepted 22 December 2003.

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doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2003.12.026

Cancer Letters
Volume 208, Issue 1 , Pages 51-58 , 10 May 2004