WITHDRAWN: Natural Killer Cell-Mediated Immunosurveillance Drives Liver Cancer Evolution Through Cancer Stemness Enhancement and Lipid Metabolism Reprogramming

WITHDRAWN: Natural Killer Cell-Mediated Immunosurveillance Drives Liver Cancer Evolution Through Cancer Stemness Enhancement and Lipid Metabolism Reprogramming | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article WITHDRAWN: Natural Killer Cell-Mediated Immunosurveillance Drives Liver Cancer Evolution Through Cancer Stemness Enhancement and Lipid Metabolism Reprogramming Liang Shi, Boqiang Liu, Ruya Sun, Jing He, Hao Shen, Weiqi Li, and 15 more This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6840080/v2 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Under Review Version 2 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Show more versions Editorial Note The full text of this preprint has been withdrawn by the authors due to author disagreement with the posting of the preprint. 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