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    Hirokazu Fukui

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    Yoshikazu Kinoshita

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    Tsutomu Chiba

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    Timothy C. Wang (Silberberg Professor of Medicine Chair) (Silberberg Professor of Medicine Chair)

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Fukui, H., Kinoshita, Y., Chiba, T. (2009). REG Proteins and Other Growth Factors in Gastric Cancer. In: Wang, T.C., Fox, J.G., Giraud, A.S. (eds) The Biology of Gastric Cancers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69182-4_21

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