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The Warburg effect drives dedifferentiation through epigenetic reprogramming

Haowen Jiang, Mohamed Jedoui and Jiangbin Ye
Cancer Biology & Medicine December 2023, 20 (12) 891-897; DOI: https://doi.org/10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2023.0467
Haowen Jiang
1Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Mohamed Jedoui
1Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Jiangbin Ye
1Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
2Cancer Biology Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
3Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Haowen Jiang, Mohamed Jedoui, Jiangbin Ye
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