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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Dentistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-Ku, Okayama, Okayama, 700-8525, Japan

    Satoshi Kubota

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    Masaharu Takigawa

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Kubota, S., Takigawa, M. (2016). CCN. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6438-9_559-1

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