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We wish to thank Francisco Ramírez Nangucé Sr. for technical assistance.
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This work was funded by Department of Defense PRCRP award HT9425-25-1-0632, the MD Anderson Cancer Neuroscience Program, and a Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain (to AJS). TAG is a CPRIT Scholar and is supported by Established Investigator Award RR190108. The Small Animal Imaging, Histopathology, Metabolomics, and High-Resolution Electron Microscopy Facilities used in this study are core MD Anderson research resources supported by the NIH/NCI under award number P30CA016672.
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Gaffney, C.M., Casaril, A.M., Mahmud, I. et al. Inflammatory neuropathy in mouse and primate models of colorectal cancer. Nat Commun (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76683-1
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