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No Time to Die, Born to Be Killers: Survival Is Accompanied by Exhaustion after an Endless Battle

  • Diederich, Sarah (BK21 Four Program, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Chung, Yeonseok (BK21 Four Program, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2021.11.11
  • Accepted : 2021.11.25
  • Published : 2021.12.31

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the research grants: Global Research Laboratory Program (2017K1A1A2004511 [Y.C.]). The paper was written during an internship (S.D.) at the College of Pharmacy of the Seoul National University as a part of the master's program "Molecular and Cellular Biology" of the University of Munich.

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