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This research was funded by the Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Nursing Research, NIH. The authors thank Dr Joan K Austin, Indiana University School of Nursing, Dr Dan Wang, NINR Intramural Research Program and the NINR Writing Group for useful discussions regarding manuscript development. We thank Drs Raymond A Dionne, Sharon M Gordon, and Ron Brown for performing the oral biopsies. We also thank the nursing staff on Outpatient Unit 3 for expert protocol support. The authors also gratefully acknowledge participants of Protocol 04-NR-0069 (clinical trials no. NCT00075023).
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St John, L., Gordon, S., Childs, R. et al. Topical thalidomide gel in oral chronic GVHD and role of in situ cytokine expression in monitoring biological activity. Bone Marrow Transplant 48, 610–611 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2012.178
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