Targeting CCR4 as an emerging strategy for cancer therapy and vaccines.

Trends Pharmacol Sci

Epinova Discovery Performance Unit, Immuno-inflammation Therapeutic Area, GlaxoSmithKline, Medicines Discovery Centre, SG1 2NY, Stevenage, UK.

Published: April 2014

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