NFAT as cancer target: mission possible?

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Published in Biochim Biophys Acta on July 26, 2014

Authors

Jiang-Jiang Qin1, Subhasree Nag1, Wei Wang2, Jianwei Zhou3, Wei-Dong Zhang4, Hui Wang5, Ruiwen Zhang6

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX 79106, USA.
2: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX 79106, USA; Cancer Biology Center, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX 79106, USA.
3: Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Toxicology, Cancer Center, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, PR China.
4: School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, PR China.
5: Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, PR China; Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, Ministry of Health, Beijing 100021, PR China.
6: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX 79106, USA; Cancer Biology Center, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX 79106, USA. Electronic address: ruiwen.zhang@ttuhsc.edu.

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