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Multiple roles of microRNA‑146a in immune responses and hepatocellular carcinoma (Review)
- Authors:
- Huihui Wang
- Xuemei Li
- Tao Li
- Lianzi Wang
- Xian Wu
- Jiaqing Liu
- Yuanhong Xu
- Wei Wei
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Affiliations: Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230022, P.R. China, Key Laboratory of Anti‑Inflammatory and Immune Medicine, Ministry of Education, Anhui Collaborative Innovation Center of Anti‑Inflammatory and Immune Medicine, Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, P.R. China - Published online on: September 12, 2019 https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2019.10862
- Pages: 5033-5042
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Copyright: © Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.
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