Oral Oncology
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 317-322 , April 2010

MicroRNAs contribute to the chemoresistance of cisplatin in tongue squamous cell carcinoma lines

  • Zhi-wei Yu
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  • Lai-ping Zhong

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Address: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Ninth People’s Hospital, School of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology and Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, No. 639 Zhizaoju Road, Shanghai 200011, China. Tel.: +86 21 23271699 5154; fax: +86 21 63136856 (L.-p. Zhong); tel.: +86 21 23271699 5161; fax: +86 21 63136856 (C.-p. Zhang).
  • ,
  • Tong Ji
  • ,
  • Ping Zhang
  • ,
  • Wan-tao Chen
  • ,
  • Chen-ping Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Address: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Ninth People’s Hospital, School of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology and Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, No. 639 Zhizaoju Road, Shanghai 200011, China. Tel.: +86 21 23271699 5154; fax: +86 21 63136856 (L.-p. Zhong); tel.: +86 21 23271699 5161; fax: +86 21 63136856 (C.-p. Zhang).

Received 4 January 2010 ,Revised 31 January 2010 ,Accepted 1 February 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2010.02.002

Oral Oncology
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 317-322 , April 2010