1Faculty of Pharmacy, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan
2Tokai Gakuen University, Aichi, Japan
3Department of Botany, National University of Singapore, Singapore
4Department of Biochemistry, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
This study was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the High-Tech Research Center Project from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. This study was also supported in part by a grant from the National Cancer Institute (CA17625).
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