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Metformin, a Diabetes Drug, Eliminates Tumor-Initiating Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells

Metformin has been widely used as an oral drug for diabetes mellitus for approximately 60 years. Interestingly, recent reports showed that metformin exhibited an anti-tumor action in a wide range of malignancies including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In the present study, we investigated its impa...

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Autores principales: Saito, Tomoko, Chiba, Tetsuhiro, Yuki, Kaori, Zen, Yoh, Oshima, Motohiko, Koide, Shuhei, Motoyama, Tenyu, Ogasawara, Sadahisa, Suzuki, Eiichiro, Ooka, Yoshihiko, Tawada, Akinobu, Tada, Motohisa, Kanai, Fumihiko, Takiguchi, Yuichi, Iwama, Atsushi, Yokosuka, Osamu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3726625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23922888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070010