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Aberrant Epithelial Differentiation in Ovarian Cancer

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the excellent technical assistance from Jennifer Smedberg and Malgorzata Rula in the laboratory research that produced the results cited in this chapter. We are grateful to the laboratory members for their suggestions, comments, and reading and editing during the course of the experiments and preparation of the manuscript. These studies were supported by funds from grants R01 CA095071, CA79716, and CA75389 to X.X. Xu from NCI, NIH.

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    Elizabeth R. Smith, Kathy Qi Cai, Callinice D. Capo-chichi & Xiang- Xi Xu

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Smith, E.R., Cai, K.Q., Capo-chichi, C.D., Xu, X.X. (2009). Aberrant Epithelial Differentiation in Ovarian Cancer. In: Stack, M., Fishman, D. (eds) Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 149. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-98094-2_7

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