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Calderón-Montaño, J., Burgos-Morón, E. & López-Lázaro, M. The in vivo antitumor activity of cardiac glycosides in mice xenografted with human cancer cells is probably an experimental artifact. Oncogene 33, 2947–2948 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2013.229
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