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Leukemia Research and Treatment
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 428960, 4 pages
Wnt/ß-Catenin: A New Therapeutic Approach to Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Department of Internal Medicine III, Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Straße 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
Received 30 August 2011; Accepted 21 October 2011
Academic Editor: Spiro Konstantinov
Copyright © 2011 Y. Kim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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