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- ... vinca alkaloids are chemotherapy drugs that inhibit the polymerization of tubulin, whereas taxanes are produced by plants of the genus Taxus that inhibit tubulin depolymerization?
- ... that Sydenham's chorea (or St. Vitus' dance) is one of the major criteria in the Jones diagnostic criteria for rheumatic fever?
- ... that rare mistargetting of somatic hypermutation is being investigated as a mechanism in the development of B-cell lymphomas?
