Innate immunity gone awry: linking microbial infections to chronic inflammation and cancer.

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Published in Cell on February 24, 2006

Authors

Michael Karin1, Toby Lawrence, Victor Nizet

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1: Laboratory of Gene Expression and Signal Transduction, Department of Pharmacology, UCSD School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. karinoffice@ucsd.edu

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