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  1. Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X5, Canada

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Woodgett, J. (2018). Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_378

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