Metformin as an Anticancer Agent

Vancura, Ales, Bu, Pengli, Bhagwat, Madhura, Zeng, Joey, Vancurova, Ivana·2018·Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
DOI 10.1016/j.tips.2018.07.006

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