Human cancer cell lines: Fact and fantasy

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 233-236

  Masters, John R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MYCOPLASMA; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MYCOPLASMA; NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034576767     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35043102     Document Type: Review

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