Fighting fire with fire: poisonous Chinese herbal medicine for cancer therapy.

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Published in J Ethnopharmacol on January 14, 2012

Authors

Shengpeng Wang1, Xu Wu, Miao Tan, Jian Gong, Wen Tan, Baolin Bian, Meiwan Chen, Yitao Wang

Author Affiliations

1: State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macau 999078, China.

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