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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Calcium/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II inhibitor 1”
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The source
A novel endogenous human CaMKII inhibitory protein suppresses tumor growth by inducing cell cycle arrest via p27 stabilization
Chunmei Wang, Nan Li, Xingguang Liu, Yuanyuan Zheng et al.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry · published February 2008 · cited 54 times by other papers
Retracted Apr 29, 2021
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Where Wikipedia cites it
- Calcium/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II inhibitor 18 views a month · open since Nov 5Zombie
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