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The research prospect on ferroptosis induced by auraptene in hepatocellular carcinoma cells

Donglin Li1 Fumin Hu1 Rui Tong1 Guokai Fu1 Xueli Bian1
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1 The MOE Basic Research and Innovation Center for the Targeted Therapeutics of Solid Tumors, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
CP 2025, 7(2), 65–67; https://doi.org/10.36922/cp.6620
Received: 28 November 2024 | Accepted: 5 December 2024 | Published online: 10 June 2025
© 2025 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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