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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 a 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?

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