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World J Gastroenterol. Nov 7, 2008; 14(41): 6303-6305
Published online Nov 7, 2008. doi: 10.3748/wjg.14.6303
Growth hormone releasing peptide 2 reverses anorexia associated with chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil in colon cancer cell-bearing mice
Simona Perboni, Cyril Bowers, Shinya Kojima, Akihiro Asakawa, Akio Inui
Simona Perboni, Unità Operativa Day Hospital Area Medica, Azienda Ospedaliera di Desenzano sul Garda, Ospedale di Manerbio, I-25025 Brescia, Italy
Cyril Bowers, Tulane University, Health Science Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, United States
Shinya Kojima, Akihiro Asakawa, Akio Inui, Department of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, 890-8520, Japan
Author contributions: Asakawa A, Bowers C, and Inui A designed research; Perboni S and Kojima S performed research; Perboni A wrote the paper.
Supported by (in part) A Grant-in-Aid for Scientic Research (B:16390208) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (to A.I.)
Correspondence to: Akio Inui, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 8-35-1 Sakuragtaoka, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan. inui@m.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
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Received: October 15, 2008
Revised: October 30, 2008
Accepted: November 6, 2008
Published online: November 7, 2008
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